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[venusadept_2]

[OOM: A discussion is had.
No decision is reached.]

Felix is sighing as he comes into the bar. Then he begins noticing things - the general worry, the unusual cold, the glimpses of red out the window, the lack of people around the Bar itself - and his face hardens. There's something wrong here, and even if this isn't his world he's going to find out what and how to fix it.

It's about then that a slightly confused waitrat shows up and offers him a tray containing four crystal spheres, about the size of softballs. One yellow, one blue, one purple, and one red.

Felix stiffens in shock. Are those...? He gingerly takes the tray. "Could you get me some kind of mithril glove or something?" he asks the rat. As it scurries off, he carefully makes his way over to a table and sets the tray down. Then he falls into a chair, now both frustrated and bewildered.

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[venusadept_2]

Once it's all set, Felix figures it's time to contain the Stars.

Not that he's especially sure of how to do that. "So what's next? Is there anywhere in particular that these need to be?"

[a1enzo]

"They should be somewhere where the field can go all the way around them without disruption." He digs among the lesser equipment brought by Welman, and brandishes a hover-platform. "They can float on this. Maybe up near the ceiling?"

[venusadept_2]

"All right."

The platform gets a curious glance, but it's probably not all that different from some of the artifacts Felix has seen on his own world - in the Lighthouses, especially. He gingerly shifts the Stars onto it, one by one, then steps back.

[a1enzo]

Enzo adjusts its position in front of him, then picks up something that looks an awful lot like a video game controller. Frowning in concentration, he manipulates it, and little devices fire out of a dispenser on the side of the generator to hover in midair; lines of crackling blue static form between adjacent nodes, so that after the first two, each new node creates a triangle. Enzo rotates the figure as it forms, so that each new vertex is nearest to the dispenser.

[venusadept_2]

Despite Felix's watchful eye, the Stars do not react to the energy any more than they do to anything else - which is to say, not at all.

He does get less sense of their presence when the field is between him and them, though, so that's working.

[a1enzo]

Enzo sags in relief once he's finished. "I think we're good. Are we good?"

[venusadept_2]

Felix takes a long, careful look. With more than just his eyes, of course; the containment field blocks most of the Stars' energies, but he can still tell they're there.

Just as Enzo said, the energy is swirling within the field, but (at least as far as Felix can tell) the Stars aren't contaminating each other. He gives a deep sigh and nods. "It looks like it. Thank you."

[a1enzo]

"Awesome."

He starts fiddling with the controller again, this time to move the field and its contents gently up to their final position between the rafters

[venusadept_2]

And Felix... can get back to his other worrying. He's got a lot of that at the moment, even without whatever's happened to the bar.