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“Is that…is that your starship?” Stormy asked, her voice giddy as she clapped her hands despite their circumstances.
The Commander nodded with a small smirk. “Yeah, she can hear us. That’s good…”
Anafenza tilted her head in confusion at this. While the Commander tried her communicator again, she turned to Stormy. “’She’ can hear us? That sounded like a man on the other side?”
“She meant the ship can hear us. Ships are always girls.”
“Ships…are always girls.” Anafenza blinked a few times but shrugged. “I assume this is an Earth thing?”
Stormy shrugged. “I suppose it is. Sorry if that’s confusing.”
The Commander groaned in frustration. “There’s too much interference here, and we can’t get far enough away from the tree to cut through.”
The other two women turned to look. Sure enough, as the Commander had implied, the cavern was smaller now, an odd gray nothingness taking the place of the stone walls around them.
Stormy snapped her fingers, then beckoned for the badge. “Gimme.” The Commander and Anafenza hesitated, not understanding what she meant. Stormy huffed, beckoning for the device again. “It’s simple, right? How do you cut through interference if you can’t build a better transmitter?”
The Commander squinted, her thoughts racing. “Change the frequency?” When the other woman simply nodded, as if coaxing her to keep trying, the Commander shrugged and shook her head. “Um, more power? I don’t –“
Stormy snapped her fingers again and grinned, interrupting. “More power!” She held the device in her hand, and Anafenza saw threads of electricity start to wrap around her arm, snapping and crackling as the woman manipulated the environment around them. As she watched, a thick fog began to form above them.
Stormy looked up to the Commander. “Ready?” When the other woman nodded, Stormy grinned. “Here we go!” She concentrated a burst of electricity right into the device, then tapped it, eliciting the chirp again.
The Commander practically leapt forward, enthralled by the woman’s powers and forgetting for a moment to speak once the device was activated. “St. Peter to Rafale! How do you hear us now?”
There was a curse on the other end of the transmission. “Prophets! LOUD and clear, Commander, how do you read?”
“Same, Rafale! I’m trapped in a collapsing pocket dimension with two other people, are you able to locate us with the signal from my commbadge and my tricorder?”
“Standby…” There were more voices in the background now, as more people began to talk over one another. Anafenza struggled to hear them all, until finally the first man came back onto the channel. “We’re locked onto the tricorder now, but there is still a large amount of interference. Whatever you labeled it when you scanned it – ‘aether?’ – it’s masking your signal. Sensors are picking up three faint life signs but they’re all registering as you.”
The Commander shook her head. “Yeah, it’s a long story, but you’re picking the three of us up just fine. You can’t transport through the interference?”
“We’re having trouble getting a positive lock…”
Anafenza shrieked then, pointing. “Jess, look!”
Both women looked up, then to where the auri was pointing. The Commander gasped. “Rafale, we have a problem! The dimension is collapsing faster than before!”
A female voice broke through then. “I just picked up a massive disturbance in your tricorder readings, Commander! The link we created here is punching a hole through your dimension and causing it to destabilize at an exponentially faster rate.”
“You can’t get a lock, Nizeri?”
“Negative; M’Ral is coming up with a plan but we can’t make it happen in the next ten seconds. Cut power; use your tricorder to send data bursts. We’ll send you a message when we have a good idea what to do on our end. I’m sorry, ma’am!”
The Commander looked at Stormy, then swatted the communicator badge out of her sparking hand.
The grey Nothingness slowed its progress consuming the cavern, and the women all let out the collective breath they’d been holding. Stormy shook her head. “Now what?”
Anafenza spoke up instead, certain of the answer. “We come up with a way to get out of here.”
The Commander nodded. “Boosting the signal definitely helped, but we need a quick solution. While they work on a way to lock onto us, it would help to make it easier for them.”
“A beacon of some sort,” Stormy said, and the Commander nodded.
Anafenza looked at the other women. “If the aether is causing the interference, what if we gave your ship a way to better navigate the flow of it to find us?”
“Not just a beacon, but a map?” The Commander tapped her chin and nodded. “How would we do that?”
“My linkpearl.” Anafenza brought her hand up to her horn, feeling for the small jewel embedded there. “It uses the flow of aether to communicate; your ship could use the flow the linkpearl uses to break through the conflicting aether here and find us easier.”
“That just might work,” the Commander said. “Alright…let’s get to work, ladies.”
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This is a separate blog for a new character! Hope you enjoy! :)
Same for the Au Ra though. Watch out for the slap...especially us with the alligator tails, you might go flying...
what if touching a miqo’te’s tail was like an actual cat where sometimes they dig it sometimes they don’t particularly care and sometimes they turn around and hiss and slap you
I got another art! It turned out so great, thank you again!
pride doodle for @stormscream i completed the other day & almost forgot to share! a bit slow due to IRL reasons, but i’m still doing these for pride!
I am not sure if I should be reading more books about Allag, or any of the fictions that are in our stores concerning allag technology.
First, it was a room this time; smaller than my apartment by far, but not cramped. There was a couch off to one side, next to a window. On the other side of that was a small desk. The desk had
It was thin and rectangular. It had words and pictures on it, that kept changing, rewriting I guess. I didn’t recognize the words – whatever language it was, I didn’t know it. There were similar glass rectangles with words and pictures flashing and rewriting on the far wall as well, next to a door that I assume led out to another room. The window showed a vast night sky, with stars far more immeasurable than any sky I’ve ever seen.
There was a small hiss, and the doors opened. A woman walked in, face down and studying what looked like one of those allagan tomestones, though it was larger than ones I’ve seen. She was wearing black pants, and a top that was black but with white shoulders and a red stripe separating the black from the white. There was a arrowhead pinned on her chest, silver. She had blue skin, and short blue hair and piercing blue eyes – I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to have that much blue on them naturally
She rounded the corner of the desk and sat down. After a moment of reading the device she dropped it on the desk and reached for a white ball that she had sitting on it. She tossed it into the air and then, as it came back down, bumped it back up with both hands. She did this a few times, oblivious to me – I think I was a ghost, watching this dream.
And then she dropped the ball, and stared right at me. Her eyes blinked a few times, her mouth hanging open. I didn’t know what to do either. We just stared at one another. And then she laughed a little and said the oddest thing.
“It’s you!”
I woke up then. I don’t know what that dream was, and I certainly didn’t recognize her. Who was she? What was that place?
Was I even dreaming?
Anafenza tugged on the small jewel embedded in her horn. She twisted it and tugged, feeling a small pop in her horn as the pearl came free, chipping away some of the horn as she did so. She handed is to the Commander, who was pulling out her scanning device – the “tricorder.”
“Alright, that takes care of the two of us.” The Commander looked up to the other blue woman. “Your phone; it’s still getting a signal, yeah? That should help locate and isolate your signal as well.”
“I can do you even better,” Stormy grinned, pulling the slender, black, rectangular device from her pocket. “It’s tied to the medicom system; when it detects my lifesigns are hitting critical levels, it activates the emergency transport beacon to send me to the nearest hospital.”
“It’s tied to a system on Earth in your time with a full reading of your vitals!” The Commander smiled wide and nodded. “That’s great! Let me pair it to my tricorder.” She began tapping buttons on the device, then paused and looked up. “Um…do you have a ‘blue tooth?’”
Stormy snickered, tapping the device’s screen before handing it over. “Bluetooth is enabled; you can pair it to your tricorder?”
The Commander shrugged. “It should be sending the correct signal? Oh! There we go. Yes.” She took the phone and began tapping on the screen, then set the two aside with her badge. “That takes care of those. Now how do we fit the linkpearl in?”
“I could…” Anafenza began, thinking aloud. “What if I activated it, and then we meld it to your badge, like a materia?”
The other two women looked at her with an expression that told Ana they had no idea what she just said. The auri sighed. “We attach it to the badge after I activate it.”
Stormy raised her hand, starting to ask “what is a materia-“ when the Commander elbowed her to shut up, then nodded. “Alright, let’s try that.”
The women gathered around, as the Commander looked at the pearl in one hand, and her comm badge in the other. The badge was gold and silver, with a thin wire bent around in the shape of an arrow, and two gold strips behind it. She shrugged, then shoved the pearl between the two gold strips in the center of the badge.
Anafenza and Stormy chuckled a little, and the Commander just looked up and nodded, satisfied with her work. Her tricorder beeped then, and she picked it up to read off the screen. “It’s Rafale; they think they have a solution and said to contact when we’re ready to try it.”
The three women all looked at one another. Stormy spoke first. “Well…if it doesn’t work…”
The Commander shook her head. “It has to work.”
“If it doesn’t, alright?” Stormy shook her head. “I do feel a little bad we didn’t…really get to learn more about each other. But this was neat. A very…interesting experience.”
Anafenza nodded in agreement. “I..am sorry Jessika could not be here to share this with you. I think she would have enjoyed meeting you both. I certainly have.”
The Commander sighed and nodded. “Would love to be able to share this with the scientific community if we make it out of here. Not just proof of parallel universes but even parallels across time as well. This was incredible. I just wish the circumstances were better.” She smiled. “Are we all ready?”
After they all nodded, the Commander took a deep breath. “Jess, activate your medicom; Ana, your linkpearl. Then, Jess, take the badge, and charge up.”
Stormy tapped her phone, while Ana took the badge and pressed the pearl in the center. She felt the small tug of aether as she activated it, connecting it to the lifestream, before handing it to Stormy. The blue woman held it tight, powering up her electricity again, then pressed the badge. It chirped.
“Rafale, St. Peter. We’re ready! Go with the plan!”
“We have you Commander. M’Ral tied the navigational chronometric sensors to the transporter system; we were able to trace the link to the tricorder, now we’re switching to the comm channel…” The woman on the other end gasped. “Whatever you’re doing over there, I can pick out all three distinct signals for you. Keep it up: M’Ral, prepare to initiate transport!”
Stormy screamed. “Whatever it is, hurry up!”
Anafenza looked around; the creeping Nothing was closing in faster. Even the tree in the center was starting to disappear. She grit her teeth, her scar suddenly burning.
A gravelly voice came across now. “Positive lock through the aether interference, initiating quantum transport in five…four…three…”
Anafenza shrieked, the burning was far greater. She could see the dark aether begin to roll off of her body now, in the same way it was rolling off the tree before. Her vision blurred, and she felt like she was reaching out in the lifestream, her aether chasing something unseen, searching…
“Two…one…energize!”
Ana screamed over the sound of chimes in the air, and a swirling vortex of lights wrapped itself around each of the three women. Her vision was consumed with light.
Welcome to week four of Magus Musings! To get our creative juices flowing (and yours!) we’ve decided to post a weekly FFXIV themed writing prompt. A new prompt will go live each Monday and you will have a week to respond with a drabble, short story, poem, letter, or anything, really. I know we said writing prompt, but if your muse wants a series of screenshots, then, by all means, do that. We want to see everything you come up with and get to know your characters a little better.
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