castbytheglyph | ΔTᴏᴛᴀʟʟʏ Sᴇʀɪᴏᴜs Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ 004∇ [Action]

Entry tags:

ΔTᴏᴛᴀʟʟʏ Sᴇʀɪᴏᴜs Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ 004∇ [Action]

[On this particularly blustery day, Pascal is lounging around in the library and making a general mess of the area around her. There are books laid out all over the table she's sat at, some piled up close by on the floor, everywhere. Even then she keeps getting up to find some other book to add to her collection. Most of the books she's reading through follow the theme of today's weather. Be it wind socks, wind surfing, anemometers, windmills, whatever, she's likely found a book on it. There's one particular book the she's so fully engrossed in that she doesn't even notice when a stack of books slips of the table.

Flying a kite sounds like a blast! There are so many different kinds of kites with different designs to them out there. To Pascal it seems like a great way to make the best out of the weather. Now she could just go and look for a kite in the item shop and see what comes up, but where's the fun in that? She's going to make her own. She makes a few trips to the item shop for some craft supplies, bring her haul back to the library so she can start her work (and make even more of a mess than before).]

[With her work soon finished, Pascal can be found testing out her kite in the plaza. She's running around all over the place, waving her arms like a madwoman in an attempt to get her kite to take off.]

C'mon, you can do it! Three, two, one, go go go!! [We have lift off! Pascal's excitement is short lived however as a particularly strong gust of wind sends the kite swerving downwards, causing it to crash into the ground not long after it took off. Wooden canes and construction paper everywhere.] Aw bananas, the wind completely totaled it... Oh well! [That was just a test flight anyway. Time to make another one!]

-

[Finally, in the afternoon, Pascal has finished her second kite and has managed to get it airborne. This isn't just any normal box kite though. There are two strings leading from the kite, one is used to keep the kite under control and the other is a pullstring. When Pascal yanks down on the pullstring, confetti starts spilling out of the kite! The wind helps in spreading the confetti around, effectively showering the plaza with multicoloured paper. Hopefully the colourful display will help cheer a few people up, especially given the draft from not too long ago and the number of entries she's seen about people going home over the journals.

While the confetti pouring out of the sky looks impressive, it's going to look a lot less interesting when it's piled up on the ground and being blown all over the place. The books and remaining craft supplies she left in the library don't look all that great either. She should probably figure out how she's going to clean everything up. Maybe. At some point. Later... Feel free to run into Pascal at any point during her day, from messing up the library to flying her kites!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Ewan happens to be walking by and is totally dazzled by what he sees. That's amazing! No, more than amazing! The most amazing non-magic thing ever!]

[She notices your amazement there Ewan and raises you one look or total excitement and happiness all rolled into one.]

Pretty neat, huh? It's like it's raining, only no one can complain about gettin' wet!

Yeah! How'd you learn to make it do that?

By going to the library and reading stuff. They have whole books on these fly-y kite things! There are like a bazillion different kites out there that are all different shapes and sizes!

[Which makes her tempted to try making her own themed kite on the next windy day.]

So anyone can learn how to make them? And make them do such neat things?

Yup, it's easy! Nothin' to it! Are you thinking of makin' your own after seeing mine up there in action? We could get a whole team of kites up in the sky, I bet someone would get a kick outta that!

Hey, yeah! We should make more and more kites and invite everyone out to watch them!

Y'know, I can see a few people coming to watch them, but I'm not so sure everyone is gonna come on down so they can stand around and watch kites. We'd hafta jazz 'em up somehow to make a real show out of it.

[... Like attach a smoke machine to one! Maybe that's a little heavy though? Mm, lasers and rockets might be pushing it too. There's confetti, but that's been done. She'll have to look into this.]

Yeah, we'd have to make them do all kinds of things. I can use magic, so I could probably get them to make fire or thunder effects!

Welp, I just so happen to know there are these kite dealies called 'stunt kites' that can whirl and twirl and totally knock your socks off! If you combine something like that with a little thunder... [With one quick movement, Pascal lifts up her spare hand and snaps her fingers.] Krackashoom! We have the best kite show the enclosure has ever seen! ... Ooor the only kite show, so it's still the best.

[Hmm. She's sure she read something about a kite being struck by lightning in a thunderstorm when she was looking stuff up today. Too bad she can't recall how that turned out, but how bad could it be?]

Wowwww! [Ewan is quite enthralled by the idea of these stunt kites] We've gotta do this! Even if it's the only one it'll still be the best!

Y'okay, sure thing! Before we go into total kite mania mode though you should probably get a feel for how to handle a real kite, yeah? Here ya go, take the reins!

[And just like that Pascal unravels the string she's using to control the kite from her hands and holds it out for Ewan to take.]

[Ewan takes it, a bit nervously, holding on as tightly as he can.] Like this?

Just like that, there's nothin' to it! You can stand there and the kite will do its own thing. If it starts shaking around and it looks all wibbly-wobbly up there then just pull it in a little or somethin', otherwise it might end up going splat!

[In which Pascal is the ~~best~~ worst person when it comes to teaching people how to fly kites.]

[So Ewan stands there and watches...it's soaring at first, but then it starts to droop.]

L-like this? [he tugs on the string]

You've gotta make sure the line is all springy, better reel it in a little so it doesn't end up flopping all over the place. I'd be really mad if I was a kite and I ended up falling just 'cause I swapped fliers or whatever!

[If making the string taut doesn't do anything for the kite then there's always running around until a strong gust of wind comes along. That can be plan b.]

Oh, okay! [He tries that, then, and the kite starts to soar again.] Yay! There we go!

Awesome! See, nothing to it at all, as long as you keep your eye on it. You'd have to try if you wanted to mess up flying a kite like this!

[There are other kites that need a little more skill, but to Pascal they basically fly themselves most of the time. Once they're eventually up in the air that is.]

This is fun!

'Course it is! If it wasn't fun then no one would bother going out and standing around holding onto boxes blowin' around in the wind. It's kinda weird how much fun you can get out of a kite when you really put your head into it!

Yeah! I wish more people back home knew about this, they'd probably get suck a kick out of it!

I know, right? I bet if someone made one of these guys back home and flew it out over the enclave then everyone would be scrambling to get their hands on one! Or two, double the kites!

Maybe when I get home I should tell everyone about these!

Well yeaaah, you could do that... But you probably won't remember 'em, y'know?

[What with people forgetting things and all. Past Pascal would totally have told her about the first time she showed up here if she remembered.]

How could I forget something as great as this?

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject