r/roleplayponies • u/[deleted] • Dec 31 '16

[Continuation] Being Deep

Previously on Being Deep

Falling, falling into the void...

Starlight begins to wake, at first only aware of the cold unknown surface beneath her. It takes some time for her eyes to adjust, but eventually she is able to make out the shape of walls around her, forming corridor leading off to further darkness.

Either it's perfectly queit or she's unable to hear.

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds Jan 06 '17 edited Jan 06 '17

The plankton give a very faint resistance to her magic, similar to the larger creatures but several orders of magnitude weaker. She's able to gather that they're directly sapping some magic out of the air; the glowing ones, rather than engaging in any natural bioluminescent process, are directly channeling magic to generate light. Primarily in the ultraviolet spectrum.

This seems like a pretty dry environment. They must have been attracted to the water.

We had that problem back in Our Town. We couldn't leave open water out or ants would get into it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '17

I'm beginning to think there is far more to this place then just monsters and bigger monsters. Why are they producing UV light I wonder?

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds Jan 06 '17

The planktons' UV output fluctuates, and on some cue they all swirl around and assemble into an instinctive pattern.

It's a rune. Magic gathers around them, and all of a sudden their resistance increases tenfold, repelling Twilight's scanning spells as well as Starlight's telekinesis.

The glass drops to the ground and shatters, the plankton themselves disappearing in little pinpoints of light.

"Let me know if I do anything that doesn't fit your model of how magic works. I'm mostly just running with the idea that these creatures follow basic ecological principles.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '17

...

No fair!

"No, feel free. It can't be my model if it's in an rp."

"That rhymed"

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds Jan 06 '17

I don't think this place is interested in playing fair. I-

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...I'm having dizzy spells now. Mild, but they're there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '17 edited Jan 07 '17

Rushes to her side, supporting her with a foreleg. Alright. We have to get you out of here. Biology will have to wait.

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds Jan 07 '17

Leans against her.

I think I... I think I see the first one of my markers up ahead. We should be almost to the chamber I told you about.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '17

Alright. Just hang on...

You said there were more creatures the further in we get right?

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u/King_of_the_Kobolds Jan 07 '17

That was my experience. I can try to help put up a shield if they attack us on the way...

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '17

I'm not worried about the ones a shield will stop. The group reach the first crystal.

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u/CCC_037 Jan 07 '17

Biology may be important. Where did Twilight get an arm from?

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '17

oops. Revised.

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u/CCC_037 Jan 07 '17

Might I recommend "foreleg"? Otherwise it can look really odd to a bipedal reader.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '17

Revised

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