Of malfunctioning portals, parks and dragons [Open]

[curiousredsoul]

Taking some time from other projects, Celena had once more brought down her Paired Gate device down to the park in an attempt to work on a number of issues of the operation of the device while in the Bleed. After all if a stable gate could be established, even for short periods of time, it could make for quick travel about the city and about the ship in general.

Thus in her usual draconic form she had set herself before the primary end of the gate device in the middle of a large clearing in the park, with the secondary portion of the device not a hundred feet away. After some time in pondering the problem she had decided to take a break from her work. Locking the device down she stretched herself out and padded away to wander the park for a short while before taking off to stretch her wings. Keeping her general flight path around the vicinity of the park itself.

[OOC: Feel free to run into her at any point, whether while she's working on the device, wandering the park or even flying around overhead!]

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[greennotgold]

As Fletcher walked through the park on one of his rare days off from working in Hydroponics, he was surprised to see... a dragon, working on some strange device.

He approached slowly -- he knew dragons weren't necessarily bad people, but, well, they were still big and scary. "What's that...?" he asked.

[curiousredsoul]

Celena pondered over what looked to be a holographic display for a moment, tapping a few places on the display before Fletcher's voice managed to break her attention on the device. Swinging her head around to look to the young human with a smile.

"This? A Paired Gateway System, a means of rapid transport between two locations," She explained easily before gesturing to the device and the secondary portable section, "I've been looking into getting past the interference that all such methods of transit seem to experience while in the bleed,"

[greennotgold]

"Rapid transport? You mean faster than those tube things?" That would be amazing, now that Fletcher thought about it. He tilted his head. "How does it work, though? I mean, what does it do to transport people?"

[curiousredsoul]

"Indeed, as fast as stepping from one place and stepping out at another, something that would be especially useful where the transport tubes don't reach," Like the city around them for instance, lifting a paw and turning it palm up, she had two small illusions form, miniature versions of the respective parts of the design, "By utilizing linked gates, or portals if you would, which allow one to step through one portal and step out of the other respective portal," To demonstrate, she had the illusions of the gate system form their respective portals and had a generic little glowing person step through one and out the other.

"It has been proven to work already in real space, it is just a matter of whether it can be properly stabilized for use while in transit,"

[brustriese.livejournal.com]

Signum, on a walk partly for exercise and partly for rare relaxation, notices the draconic form flying around the park. She recognizes her general shape, though she can tell it's not Aibghalien because this dragon actually knows how to fly with wings. Deducing that the dragon is his comrade, then, Signum decides to be polite, stop, and wave hello to the flying figure.

[curiousredsoul]

It didn't take long for the usually quite observant dragon to spot the Signum on the ground. Oh she could fly alright, tilting on wingtip she brought her course around then down back toward the park down toward Signum. Landing nearby with a single smooth backwing before padding over toward her, "Hello there,"

[brustriese.livejournal.com]

Signum lets her eyes widen and eyebrows arch in a bit of admiration - as an aerial mage, she appreciates a natural flier.

"Hello to you as well," she says, bowing slightly in deference to the dragon. "Am I mistaken, or are you Miss Celena Vantari?"

[for-magic.livejournal.com]

As Celena flew through the sky, another draconic figure joined her, matching altitude and speed perfectly. (Eat that, Signum.)

"Not having much luck, I take it?"

[curiousredsoul]

"Not much no, it's being rather stubborn thus far," She replied with a shake of her head before glancing across with a smile to her companion as he matched her altitude and speed. "If I can just find a way to stabilize the link properly though,"

[for-magic.livejournal.com]

"The very fabric of the Bleed seems to oppose any efforts to transit it spatially or temporally," he said. "The one time I came close, you'll recall, I stabilized reality so fundamentally it became absolutely still and shattered."

[carrieswar.livejournal.com]

"Hey, more dragons!" Jr. called as he stared up into the sky. This one looked different from that golden one he had met not too long ago in the river. He had seen where if flew up from, so while it was in the air, he wandered over to take a look at the gate device.

[curiousredsoul]

That call did not go unnoticed from the dragon in the air as she peered down toward its source with some amusement, wondering just which other dragons he had seen. Watching him from above for a moment she circled around and came into land not far from the gate device, "Greetings to you,"

[carrieswar.livejournal.com]

"Hey there," Jr. snapped up a quick wave with a smile. "Looked like you were having a pretty good time up there."

He turned his head to the device. "Is this yours or something?"

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie was taking a walk through the park when she was suddenly covered on all sides by a dark shadow, which caused her to look up as she tried to discover the source of the strange change. And then she froze.

That looked like... But how?

As her shock began to pass, Cassie remembered that Marco and Ax had mentioned that there were dragons on the ship. Marco had apparently befriended one dragon, a female one named Celena, enough that she had allowed him to acquire her DNA. Other then that, she didn't know much of the dragons on the ship, but she hadn't heard that any of them were a threat.

Raising her hand, she called out to the dragon, hoping that the dragon could hear her even at this distance. "Hello!"

(OOC: If you'd rather not have them meet now then that's fine. Just let me know. Also, please let me know if I start doing poorly with my tags at any time. Thank you. :) )

[curiousredsoul]

As observant as the dragon in question was known to be, even while thinking she picked out the call of greetings from below. Tilting her flight so that she could swing her head around partially to spot the other on the ground with but a short moment of searching.

"Greetings!" She called down in return as she circled overhead once before dipping her flight to bring herself down with graceful ease nearby, landing with but a single backstroke of her large wings, folding them in against her side as she padded towards the one who had greeted her. One with whom she was unfamiliar, perhaps one who had only recently been release?

(OOC: I'm fine with them meeting now! Likewise do let me know if I do as well, and welcome :) )

[caringcassie.livejournal.com]

Cassie took a step back as the dragon landed gracefully near her, nervousness and awe flooding through her. It wasn't as though she spoke with dragons on a regular basis and she wasn't sure how best to approach one. Still, the dragon's greeting had been friendly enough.

She walked over to meet the dragon and smiled. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Cassie."

[on_errantry]

Rhiow was actually looking forward to working with Celena. Despite her membership in the magical department, nobody had yet called on her expertise. But Gating was what she knew, backward and forward - maybe not as intensely as Saash had known it, but Rhiow had spent her life dedicated to building that expertise. If the ship had need of it, she was happy to give it.

Maintaining a gating complex again would do her good. If they could get something set up, she would dearly love to have it in Grand Central Station. Maybe she could convince Celena of that much.

Rhiow realized her thoughts were getting away with her when she walked right over Celena. After long habit, she was using the air-walking spell to get around. It had worked in Manhattan - the only difference was here she didn't need to sidle. Please use this shape now, she told the air, holding a picture of stairs in her mind. She walked down the air and jumped lightly to the ground in front of Celena. "Hunt's luck - how's it coming?"

[curiousredsoul]

Rhiow's approach did not go unnoticed by the dragon even as she approached on seemingly thin air, drawing Celena's gaze away from the holographic control display of the device. Now that was interesting.

Smiling down to her once she had jumped down onto the ground once more she dipped her head in greetings, "And to you, I have been looking into ways of stabilizing a gate while in the bleed, so far it has proved rather resistant, to be expected however. On the other hand, while in real space it has managed to repeatedly establish stable gateways at numerous distances and sizes,"

[on_errantry]

Rhiow pricked her ears forward at the gate device, trotting around it with her tail high as she examined it. "Interesting - it's not active unless it's being used? Where does it draw power from?"

Worldgating didn't work in the Bleed because of Stacy's varying temporal state, but if Rhiow could put a piece of wizardry that could convince the gate that time in this subsection of reality was linear, they might be able to get somewhere.

[slime-earrings.livejournal.com]

Oh! Another dragon in the sky. There are certainly a lot more than Sofia had first imagined being here. She watched the figure fly in the sky, squinting her eyes to make sure it was not someone she had seen before.

Really sorry for missing this one >.<;;

[curiousredsoul]

Even flying about as she was, Celena caught sight of the other looking up from the ground. Not one she recognized immediately, that in itself drew her attention as she tilted on wingtip to guide her flight closer to the figure below, a paw waved in greetings to the one below.

Haha it's fine I honestly thought my post was terrible or something. XD

[zenithianhero.livejournal.com]

She gave a polite head bow in return...before returning with a wave of her own. The way her wings and entire body was entirely different than what Sofia had observed in the dragons from her world.

[pretty_lethal]

It was kind of hard not to notice Celena in the park, which was a place Rachel cut by often enough. It was a good place to stretch her legs, if nothing else.

She saw the dragon wandering through the park, like she herself had intended to do for just a bit, and she cast a casual wave in her direction. "Hey, Celena."

((ooc: I hope it's okay that this is so late :c ))

[curiousredsoul]

Celena was rather hard to miss when she wasn't attempting to go unseen, such as was the case as she walked through the park, running through many different lines of thoughts ranging from potential ideas for the device she was working on to other projects and people.

It did not take long at all even despite her thoughts to notice Rachel, after all there was a reason Kang had selected her for his Intelligence division. Extending a wing everso slightly in emulation of the gesture as she smiled across to the familiar human, "Hello, Rachel,"

((ooc: I don't mind at all!))

[pretty_lethal]

Rachel smiled a faint bit back at that, and dropped her hand back to her side as she came a bit closer. Not that she was entirely sure what was an appropriate distance to stop at, to talk to a dragon, but she was working on that still.

She stopped at what she thought was a decent distance. "Keeping busy?"