ROLEPLAY

Mac'Od bitty looks with appreciation at the copied reports of the recent event, then looks at the bill from the Scribes Guild and shudders. Time to start talking to the overseers about doing some contract work for them. Still, good work is worth the cost, and this work is very good. Full color lumios with proper shading adorn the pages. He tips the apprentice then signals a young homin to post the reports in all the cities.
((OOC click on the captions to see a larger version of the lumios or to view sequences of pictures.))

To all who may see this, greetings from Mac'Od Bittty. This is my report on the happenings recently at Sandy Workshop in Liberty Lakes. I am expecting more lumios to be delivered momentarily. When they are, I will post them.

I awoke to the strident "caw" of three Izams, each bearing a message that I should come at once to Sandy Workshop to witness what was going on there. Swimming as fast as I could, I arrived upon the site to see three of the hovering craft of the Karavan in the air, Karavan Engineers and Guards gathered around the strange artifact that had fallen there, and a large crowd of my fellow homins.

I immediately started making lumios of what was happening. The Karavan Engineers had set up four new devices at the four quarters of the area around the mysterious artifact that had crashed to the surface of Atys. I have marked them in my first lumios.


One (Mysterious objects placed around the original mysterious object.)

It was difficult to see much at the time, due to the fact that as a Tryker pretty much everyone gets in the way to a greater or lesser extent.


Two (A Tryker's eye view of the situation.)

I moved to get a good view of the artifact just as a great noise sounded and a brilliant light appeared in front of me. The sound and light reminded me very much of the Rainbow Gates that were used during the Second Great Swarming to take us refugees from the Kami Oasis to the Refuge where we dwelt for eight years.


Three (A great noise and light. You can see one of the new objects silhouetted.)


Four (Then there is only dust and smoke.)

The assembled homins were stunned by the suddenness of the action, and the ship above the debris immediately began to move away. The Karavan Engineers and guards walked until they were underneath another one of the ships.


Five (And the ship that was hovering over the site begins to move off.)


Six (The engineers began to move off. I followed but looked back at the site.)

They stood there for a moment, then the characteristic appearance of a Karavan teleportation action appeared around them and they vanished.


Seven (The Karavan are taken into their ship.)

Following that, the ships began to move, slowly at first, then more rapidly. Homins, of course, followed, hoping to discover more about the mysterious Karavan.


Eight (The ships begin to move.)


Nine (All three ships start to move off.)


Ten (Making quick pictures as homins start to chase the ships.)


Eleven (As the ships move off, homins follow. (Eleven through Thirteen.))

We followed the ships for some time, but the ships moved through the air faster than we could move through the water.


Fourteen (Following the ships down the lake. (Fourteen through Sixteen))

Eventually they disappeared from sight.


Seventeen. (My last view of the Karavan ships.)

Submitted for the education of all of the homins of Atys. I will not here speculate on the nature of the artifacts, the intent of the Karavan or anything else.

Mac'Od Bittty

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Seal of the Guild of Scribes of Fairhaven
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((OOC – this is a link to a Flickr Set of all the lumios))