March 19
Heian has gone to find Solstice Ashdragon.
Tranq has returned and met us at Korro's Court.
Lady Afra asks us to come with her.
The palace has been stripped back to its bones. It looks like they're packing everything up to move. Ruben concludes they have moved on already and this is what is left. Afra confirms this, acknowledging this isn't their home, but she will take us there. She assures us it is on this plane. Zyrell protests, he doesn't want us to see.
Afra leads us to a teleportation circle, with 6 points on the edge, instructing us to stand on them. Nick Furry is visibly distressed. Ophion talks to him, tries to encourage him, understands he must be missing his friend Onai. Nick Furry is very scared, doesn't seem to trust anyone even Ophion, reluctantly comes along.
We teleport. We're deep in the jungle. The sky is torn, jagged edges, sickly green colour like the edges are infected, oozing, with nothing but blackness behind the tear.
It's very hot & humid, monsoonal, raining. Brazil nut tree circles, trees at least a hundred metres tall.
There's many structures, most of them partly buried, from an old civilisation, like a lot of architecture we've seen recently. Semudan maybe? A few hundred years old?
We come to a palace. It looks to be from the Emerald Empire of Gaoro Semudan, the empire before the current day Ruby Empire of Redin Semudan. It looks like a typical royal residence, rather than a personal one.
There's women dancing, covered head to toe in green paint.
Afra tells us they protected us when we were "disassembled". She focuses on Ruben, telling him she especially protected him and his incredible mind. She is quite keen for us to see what they can do with the ink.
Zyrell & entourage arrive, coming out from a nearby building.
Green painted men join the women dancing.
The ink appears in the middle of the clearing. Ruben visibly perks up. Tranq immediately puts a hand on Ruben to steady him.
The ink looks different from before. It looks even more like circuitry, and there's beiges and purples.
