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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 13:43:31 GMT -6
Renathan instinctively recoiled at the snapping noise, even though it was not directed at himself. He knew that the creature easily had enough strength to use the correct crushing blow to kill most sarane in a single blow. He knew the creature was directly conditioned to at least somewhat like him; but that didn't mean that it couldn't decide not to suddenly. Renathan was used to sarane; huge creatures that could kill him in a single blow; but not something like this vulticus. It had to be nearly as strong as his wiurn! Or maybe it was just the confidence that the creature appeared to be active with; over his wiurn's more calm and serene arrogance. He was not sure; both were intimidating in their own way- but he was much, much more nervous of the vulticus' strong jaws. As the vulticus opened his maw to make the snap previously; it had glowed with the same light as the scars across his body; just what did that mean?
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 13:49:56 GMT -6
Renathan would like to find out later exactly what was up with the creature; but the issue was that right now he couldn't really afford to possibly have a finger removed by putting it anywhere near this creature's mouth; and well, he had no idea whether or not the scars on his body were actual fire or just appeared to be? He had no idea. He was a bit nervous to put his hand on it to make sure; his body was mildly resistant to most fire; but it could still harm him of course. He was sure that one of these days one of his fiery creatures would be dangerous enough to really hurt him. Breaking Stag had been a nightmare and a half, he remembered it. Renathan didn't want a repeat with the intimidating vulticus. He was sure most of his sarane would be frightened of it; after all. Renathan does reach out finally with his hand; towards a spark as it outraced him.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 13:58:44 GMT -6
Renathan misses that spark; but he is now quite decided on actually trying to catch one of these fire-lights. The two have long since stopped in the direct center of the fay field; the vulticus standing majestically as if he was right where he belonged; Renathan standing nervously on his toes, ready to retreat at any point. The issue was that the mansion had indeed hurt him in the past; and he was worried that it would do so again. Of course, now that he had done further research, he knew that the mansion itself fed into different... Forces or something like that each month; and the month that had given him the most trouble seemed to have psionic properties. He had never done very well against psychic issues in the past; so it had probably found his weakness and fed upon it. However; this month was certainly at least partially fire or maybe light based? Neither of which would harm him or his beast too much hopefully.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 14:05:38 GMT -6
He waits until one of the more slowly-whizzing reddish lights prepared to go off near him and in his direction, and he takes one hand off of the chain to reach out and attempt to grasp it; the light winked out in his palm imparting a bit of warmth but no really urgent heat. More like a hearth than a wildflame. At least the reddish one was. He opens his hand and is surprised to find a small bit of glittering dust; precisely like glitter. He grins softly beneath the mask; and then watches out this next time for a brighter yellow one. The vulticus is also snapping at the fireworks, this time more gently; letting out dignified snapping noises rather than horrific cracks. Well, that was good at least. Renathan swallows, keeping an eye on the bright vulticus; but also is distracted right as a bright yellow firecrack appeared to race toward him. He just barely catches it in the pad of one palm.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 14:09:06 GMT -6
Vulticus tended to take to new owners very quickly; they were loyal beasts to the end. Renathan had heard that from someone; but his own interactions with the beasts had been with his domesticated one; and that was little more than doglike to be honest. He had no idea if that translated to the much larger and stronger cavelike vulticus creatures. Renathan feels a slight hottish sting in his palm; but it was little more than a basic ant-bite; hardly much of a bother let alone a real issue. He can see even more of the bright sparkles in his hand, a little bigger, like confetti this time. He rubs his hand carefully, and then smiles as the sparkles are pushed across his palm. This was... Magical. And did not seem much too dangerous for him. There were two other main colors of sparklers here; white and blue. He figured that the white would be quite warm; but he still wanted to test it.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 14:54:58 GMT -6
Being a fire elemental sure had it's perks; the flames dancing around him didn't seem to have the strength to actually harm him since he had swallowed a node in the past- so he was not quite reckless, not quite cautious. He could feel the swell of fun in his chest as he fought the urge to run out across the field on all fours; leaping and striking at the sparklers. He holds on to the chain with both hands now; despite the fact that the vulticus was not actually moving. Renathan looks out across the way, trying to figure out if there was some kind of rhyme or reason to this strange occurrence here at the mansion. He couldn't quite figure out exactly where the sparks were coming from; either the grass, or just above the grass maybe? The mansion sure was very strange! Renathan can see another white sparkler streaking towards him; so he leans out with one hand to catch it; expecting a sting.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 15:03:01 GMT -6
Renathan is just able to snatch the sparkler near the height of it's destination and instead of a bright and painful sting; he received and absolutely big puff of sparkles all about his hand; nearly like a mushroom spore release. He was more shocked at this than he would have been if he had received a sting in it's place! The sparkles coated his hand in a bright and shimmery array; catching the light of the declining sun in a dazzle. Renathan gasped a little, shocked. He glanced over at the vulticus, who was also covered with different colored glitter at this point. The little splatters of silver were more like glittery paint across his fur, but without the paint of course, just the pattern. Renathan leans out and grabs the nearest blue one; now that he wasn't sure that all of them were necessarily fire and flames. His hand just barely closed around it; he'd nearly missed it.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 15:19:01 GMT -6
The blue sparkler certainly had heat; searing heat, but it was less like flame and much more like... A healing? The act was painful, but it removed the slight burned place on his hand from the previous yellow sparkler that had somewhat left a bit of pain. He dropped the chain momentarily to grasp his pained hand's wrist (perhaps to try to keep the pain from racing down his arm) as he watched the sparkler do it's work; the painful healing that was. It left both a slight trembling in the hand and a large amount of sapphire blue glitter laid out a cross his palm. He gently lets go of his wrist, and rubs his palm sorely; though the pain was faded and the burn was gone. That was... Strange, to say the least. The blue offered healing; but at the price of pain it appeared. He had no idea why that was; and couldn't even fathom an attempt at an idea either.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 15:28:48 GMT -6
Renathan had always been baffled by the rather shocking things that happened at the mansion, but he'd never really been shown any kindness by the mansion before, not really. This kindness was painful, but it still did more health than harm it appeared. He stands there feeling oddly naked (despite wearing all of his clothes) in the middle of the field; and then realized why- he'd dropped the chain altogether at the shock of the pain earlier! He turns around, relieved to see that the vulticus had not left the spot it was standing it's ground in. He breathes out and then picks up the chain carefully, not to pull on the vulticus at all at the time. He didn't want to make their strange balancing act any more tenuous, not at all. He hoped to add this creature to his future travelling plans, but he had no idea if the vulticus would be ready for that at the correct time. He hoped so.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 15:49:34 GMT -6
Renathan was still incredibly curious about the area; he bends down now that he has the chain in one hand, and strokes the dried summer grass with a single hand, carefully. As he touches it, it seems to react to his body itself; sparks flying off of the grass in an almost mystical manner; as if it were reacting to the own fire in his heart; yet it wasn't himself... He decides that he likes this month at the mansion pretty quickly, now that he has discovered this. The sparks were pink whenever he stroked the grass; pink like the flames he normally had. It was almost as if the mansion were throwing him a metaphorical bone; not a real one thankfully, since he'd already been quite disturbed by bones here in the past few months. He gently continues to touch the grass, and then watches as the vulticus has turned to watch him do this, eyes focused on the pink sparks the mansion was creating.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 15:54:04 GMT -6
The vulticus watched him with vague curiosity for a hollow moment before bending his own nose down to the grass and nuzzling it, his mouth slightly open. As if he was sniffing, drawing in the sent of the grass through the top of his palette and into his nostrils. He finally touches his nose to the grass and Renathan is not surprised to see a flurry of sparks in a rainbow of colors, mostly white, orange, and blue, erupt from the grass in response like roman-candle shots; bright spheres of light against the horizon, screaming the whole way. Renathan is too shocked to do much more than watch them as the fly up much higher than his; right above his antlers, and explode into a flurry of sparkling light. Renathan blinks and smiles beneath the mask, his bright pink eyes glowing with the happiness of it. It was so strange, how the mansion reacted to those who dared enter it's gates.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 15:58:03 GMT -6
The area was warm, the night's musk beginning to grow heavy around the pair with every little bit the sun went down. Renathan was sure he was keeping up with the time; he had to be back home with his familiar within the next day after all. However, he didn't plan to be out here all night anyway. Just long enough to be sure that the vulticus could be controlled easily enough in the park. Right now, however, the vulticus was appearing quite... Well, aloof and feral were probably the correct words for this, he thought. He stops stroking the grass and looks up to see the vulticus having stepped back, to watch the now excitable sparkler lights turning into little roman candle lights now. He watches the display too; at least in a berth about the vulticus was a bright flare of roman candle-like lights; with sparklers continuing out across the field further on.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 16:06:57 GMT -6
Renathan crouches down into the grass, causing what had to have been a thousand tiny baby sparklers to leap up, in bright blushing pink and neon magenta, creating tiny explosions as the hit the height of their arc. Renathan swallowed, delighting at the beautiful display around him. The vulticus seemed a little surprised, but was much more interested in those beautiful multi-colored roman candle explosions instead. Renathan did have to agree that those were the most beautiful. He was really inspired right now to design a type of jewelry based off of this; but he knew that the board was taking a quick break so it would be a little while before he could submit any designs... That would give him a moment, he hopes, to design something he really, really wanted. He reaches into his backpack to grasp his pencil and sketchpad; and he begins drawing a few ideas based off of the beautiful sparklers and roman candle-like flares above him.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 16:33:16 GMT -6
He'd done so many designs before; his goal was to create twelve different bases; but he hadn't gotten that far yet. A lot of his ideas just didn't feel polished enough to send in, not really. He wanted to only send in the best of the best of his ideas; so he was careful to come up with the most beautiful finished product possible before trying to get it put in for submission. For now, he planned to sketch what he was seeing before him so that he could work on designs previously. The vulticus glances back at him again, curious as to what he was doing with the notepad. He doesn't seem to have very good eyes, or maybe he just didn't get the whole 'drawing' thing. He turns away and looks up into the sky again, at the bright roman candle-like bright explosions. Renathan sketches quickly, wanting to catch the ephemeral concept of the momentary explosions.
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Post by Renathan on Jun 16, 2018 17:01:32 GMT -6
The mammalian quickly completes his sketch, a little disappointed with it but certainly he'd committed the beautiful sight in his memory thanks to trying to make it as realistic as possible and just like what he was seeing. The vulticus was finally back to sniffing around the immediate area around his paws; making Renathan both cautious and curious. He steps forward, towards the vulticus; and the vulticus watches him warily, from his bent-down position that he was sniffing the grass in. Renathan cautiously looks down, carefully checking the area with his eyes, not wanting to get too near the vulticus quite yet. He knew that eventually his equillion had come around to him; but he was afraid that the vulitcus never truly would. The vulticus stands his ground, and snaps a bit at him as he gets closer to the spot. Renathan backs up a bit, his own ears laid back and teeth bared, glinting obviously underneath the mask.
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