Uphill Battle

[Bjorn]

His eyes might be denied to him, but Bjorn's perceptions aren't just limited to the physical plane.  It's time to test the gamble he made, and he concentrates upon the fabric of the Dream itself.

To the elder Shuker, he replies, "We should be about three hours, I believe.  Hopefully this won't be too much of an inconvenience."

OOC: New Influence allocation: 6 CP Clairsentience (Sight only); 6 CP Anchor Sense; 3 CP Mental Defenses.

[Dracos]

OOC:Assuming we cannot see the elder shuker
IC:
"Who are you talking to?" Dracos wondered, taking his eyes off the amazing sight out the window and looking briefly for whoever had made the comment.  Taking a guess from Bjorn's story, his eyes shifted drawing upon the ability to see magic.

OOC: Moving some influence to see magic

[Brian]

When he focuses, Phil can vaguely make out a glowing, mostly see-through figure standing before Bjorn.  Bjorn finds that his perceptions are a bit ... awkward, as though he were looking into the Dream from outside.   It does work, other than the fact that items in the periphery of his vision seem to slide and stretch, snapping back into place when he looks elsewhere.  Interestingly, he notes that his physical eyes blink exactly once every ten seconds, and are locked on the windows -- conscious control seems to be lost.

"Three hours," the elder Shuker muses.  "I'd best hurry, then.  Any urgent messages?"

[Bjorn]

"Don't shoot?" Bjorn replies, a bit drily.  "Not other than that, I think."

[Dracos]

"Sounds about right to me as well...."

OOC: Yo brian, while I should check on my follower...I'm thinking in the interest of brevity for hal's sake we wave over that.  I'd be glad to play it out quick though in an irc session or something.

[Brian]

The trip is silent, for the most part.  The view is spectacular, too -- shifting shrouds of glimmering light, veiling ... something.  The bloated sun unleashes two more solar flares while the passengers watch -- it raises questions on relative distance, among other things, if it happens quickly enough to observe without time-lapse.  Another of the existing loops of plasma dives back into the star -- and then there's an unsettling lurch, a passage through a thick bank of cloud -- and klaxons are sounding across the ship.

This thread is now closed; action moves to Space Oddity.