(IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Well I don't know how much I like being called Jules but it'd probably be taken as a slight to reject that. At least they didn't just lop off the 'n'.

Think of the science fiction author! For the record, yes, the "Jules" I know is female.The other option I considered was "Ju".

Well hopefully it's not a gambling thing otherwise... Well I can't exactly lose my shirt now, can I?

For now... its just skill. A gambling variant probably happens. Julian notices that they're not using any of the coins they just got for it.

I'll follow along. Hopefully it's somewhere I won't get kicked around as much.

I see, so were continuing down to an even lower tunnel. Dotted lines are more vertical? I suppose the lower tunnels get dark?

Dotted lines means a bunch of tunnel between the two sections depicted. not that the diagram is to scale in the first place.

So a spirally heptagram. Whenever we get where we're going I guess I can ask how chalk makes the Vasic light up.

Brog almost finishes the diagram, and then stops for a while. They turn off into a platform room, with a tunnel leading off of it, and then Brog finishes the chalk pattern on the stone. with a flash, the tactile divot appears in its surface, and it begins to glow. Brog leads the rest of the boys into a dark tunnel formed from vegetation.



The tunnel has much sparser light in it, but it does have some. There are lots of side tunnels. The boys peel off one by one to go to glowing stones in the side tunnels, but they seem to catch up afterwords. Brog and Ump take Julian with them on one side passage, and Brog hands a woman his money for the day. She looks at Julian long and hard, and asks what he thinks are questions about him.

Well... There's a few way to read into 'most of the street kids appear of European descent'. One is 'they're discriminated against', another is 'there's tensions between ethnic groups'. Though there might be 'Lawin and Muggragle are a minority and/or they can move in more on the z-axis and keep to themselves'. Though between this and Graco asking about 'taller responsible people' I have a sneaking suspicion being short might be part of it. Everyone Julian's seen has been (apart from Ump and Co.) are of the four named groups, right?

No, you've seen pointed ears with pale skin rather than grey. You've also seen very small people with feathered wings (30lbs or so) and Keep watching, there are certainly tensions and a dynamic here.



If you're looking for patterns, the "europeans" seem to be the most common (maybe half the population), followed by Mugraggle. You've never see any Lawin working, only traveling or purchasing things. The people you see in here do seem to be at least mostly "europeans", though yip went in, and you think you saw someone with very dark skin.