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[venusadept_2]

[OOM: Buddy, you're a boy,
Make a big noise playing in the street;
Gonna be a big man some day!]

Behind Milliways, there are the grounds.
On those grounds, there are trees.
One of those trees, which doesn't necessarily get as much attention as you'd think, is able to move its branches about.
Beneath this particular tree is a tunnel. It doesn't usually lead anywhere.

Today, a young man comes flying out of that tunnel with remarkable force and accuracy. He is launched through the air, over some portion of the grounds, and through the conveniently open door of the bar. He lands, somewhat disheveled and out of breath, half under an unoccupied table. (A small stick of wood rolls away, knocked by his hand. Somewhere, a brief fanfare plays.)

[Ya got mud on your face, you big disgrace!]

[OOC: Open until it scrolls! For the record, the Queen song is not actually playing; my linktext got away from me.]

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Oh, dear," says Ellen, looking up from where she was sewing a patch onto her blue Vault suit. "Are you all right?"

She's got some fairly epic music playing around her at the moment, considering that she's, y'know, sewing.

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"Oof."

Give Felix a minute; he's just been flung through the air. As such he's also not in much of a position to notice that the music has anything to do with Ellen.

"I'm all right," he manages. And indeed, landing aside, he is; he just got a huge boost of his native element.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Oh, good." Ellen gets up, putting her work aside. "Do you need a hand? That looked like you got the wind knocked out of you."

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...Yeah, that would probably be good.

"Thank you," he says, and rolls a bit until he can stick out an arm in her direction.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen crouches down to grab his hand and start pulling him up.

"Oof. What happened? Or should I not ask yet?"

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Once Felix gets a little upright Ellen might notice a brief yellow sparkle (accompanied by a burst of music); afterward he's able to contribute a lot more to getting himself the rest of the way up.

He shrugs his other shoulder. "It probably has something to do with the Lighthouse. When we lit Mercury I popped out of the lake here, and we just lit Venus."

Yeah, that's probably not very coherent. Feel free to ask for clarification.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen's gonna get a chair for him, and then one for herself, and then she's going to say "Um. The lighthouses have individual names? Or is this something to do with the planets themselves?"

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"Yes, basically," he answers. This time he does notice the music starting up in the background, but he continues anyway. "There are four Elemental Lighthouses, which act like locks on my world's magic. Mercury for water, Venus for earth, Jupiter for wind, and Mars for fire. There is probably some connection to the planets, but I don't know what it would be."

Those planets exist, no question. But whether the relation is purely symbolic or more than that, no one can say.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Huh," says Ellen. "Neat. It all sounds like something you'd see in a Grognak the Barbarian comic- we don't really have magic at home except in stories, but they used to write the kind of stories about him that'd have quests like that in it."

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It occurs to Felix that most people on his world would probably say much the same thing about magic. He doesn't say so, though. Instead...

"Like what kind of stories?" Storytime!