Cauldron Festival

[Anastasia]

Okay, go ahead and set the scene for your Cauldron Festival, Seira.

[Corwin]

Twin dragons soar throughout the Cauldron, entwined, as they bear Amaryl and Seira's colors. The animated statues follow predetermined paths to the keen-eyed observer, though paying so much attention to them means looking away from the open air stalls lining the Cauldron's inner walls, accessible through both the terraces and via flight. In fact, flying down the main shaft is allowed almost all the way down, except the three bottom layers.

"The magma imports are closer to the bottom," Seira elaborates, gesturing below. "As for the bakeries, they've done their weird borrowing in stone thing so they're like hidden presents you need to track down and discover to purchase! I know a really good one two levels down, if you'd like to head over there first? Regular visitors need to look for disturbed earth and other signs to access them, so playing along might be fun too."

The caviar and other assorted delicacies will be a surprise, she thinks happily to herself.

[Ebiris]

Marie's in her humanoid-sized elf form, able to fly without wings since they're on the astral plane and better able to blend in with Antenora and Seira. "Looking for hidden presents sounds fun. Every one's like a mini-adventure!" she agrees brightly with that prospect, looking around and taking in the ambience.

[Anastasia]

Antenora walks along, taking it all in. She takes a deep breath and slowly exhales, "Do you want to play along, Marie? Also, I don't suppose there's anything lawfully inclined mixed into all of this?"

[Ebiris]

"Playing along suits me, we can explore and stretch out the fun that way," Marie says agreeably. "And Earth's a pretty lawful element, all solid and fixed, so you can't complain about that."

[Anastasia]

"Until some chaotically whirling and moving water starts to erode it," Antenora smiles slightly, "Or some wild and unpredictable wind does the same."

[Ebiris]

"Or a wild untamed fire does... well, pretty much nothing," Marie gives a lithe 'can't win 'em all' shrug. "Though I consider water more lawful than chaotic. It's a lot more predictable."

[Corwin]

Seira nods her agreement. "True. It's the juxtaposition inherent in the situation that draws all to seek them out! What else... the flying dragons, maybe?" she muses. "I've heard someone claim one of them deviated from the pattern if you looked closely but I'm sure he was wrong. It'd take someone pretty dedicated to even try to prove this, there's tens of thousands of them!"

[Anastasia]

"It depends," Antenora admits, "A river is lawful, controlled, ordered. A rainstorm is much more chaotic."

[Ebiris]

"But the rain always goes down unless it's got the wind blowing it sideways," Marie shakes her head before she turns it Seira's way. "One dragon that's the odd one out? Does it have a treasure map engraved on its scales too? Or a key to treasure hidden inside one of its fangs?"

[Corwin]

"It certainly doesn't exist," Seira insists. "Though if it did, I wouldn't be able to comment on such guesses out of a sense of fair play~"

[Anastasia]

Antenora merely smiles at that, "It is a mystery then, Marie. I wonder if an undisciplined mind like yours can solve it?"

[Ebiris]

"Might be a bit unfair to everyone else, but why not right?" Marie says with a cheerful grin. "But lets get something to eat first, fuel ourselves up for the puzzle!"

[Corwin]

With matters decided for the time being, Seira leads the four of them down into terraces before picking a tunnel seemingly at random!

[Anastasia]

Aiming for anywhere in particular?