[Hijikata feels like slumping on the ground and just waiting for his heart rate to go down. That was such a close call!! In hindsight it was really irresponsible of him to take Crow along on this risky-ass quest! But hey, that outro was amazing. Maybe the risk was worth it for that alone. The legend of Ravyn the root wrecker will probably live on among the prisoners for a long time!
He simply nods at Crow's shocked reaction to the desolate ruins, lights himself a cigarette and checks the time on his phone. They ultimately didn't spend a full hour in the prison, but he shouldn't be walking around with a fae face for much longer. Good. He decides to play it cool and pretend that he had totally planned this all out... a few hiccups aside, as Crow quickly reminds him.]
Of course we'll get our stuff back. However it'd be for the best if we gave the prison and surrounding area a wide berth for a good while... perhaps our familiars can support us. I'll call Arashi here, but I expect it'll take him until tomorrow.
[Unlike some other people's familiars the crow tengu can't just teleport or appear out of hammerspace, he actually has to fly across the island, and they're quite remote from the Ash Mountains. On foot the journey would probably take 3 days, but through the air Arashi can simply cross the Dusklight Woods and the river and win a lot of time.]
You don't have another totem to the Land of Maidens either, do you? But even if we had one, how'd we get through that aqrabuamelu-infested area? The archaeopteryx will keep waiting for us not too far from the banyan tree, and I have no way of communicating with it across the distance. I'll have to ask Arashi to somehow make it understand that we're gone from there already.
[If only anyone in their outworlder-familiar quartet could speak with animals! Alas.]
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He simply nods at Crow's shocked reaction to the desolate ruins, lights himself a cigarette and checks the time on his phone. They ultimately didn't spend a full hour in the prison, but he shouldn't be walking around with a fae face for much longer. Good. He decides to play it cool and pretend that he had totally planned this all out... a few hiccups aside, as Crow quickly reminds him.]
Of course we'll get our stuff back. However it'd be for the best if we gave the prison and surrounding area a wide berth for a good while... perhaps our familiars can support us. I'll call Arashi here, but I expect it'll take him until tomorrow.
[Unlike some other people's familiars the crow tengu can't just teleport or appear out of hammerspace, he actually has to fly across the island, and they're quite remote from the Ash Mountains. On foot the journey would probably take 3 days, but through the air Arashi can simply cross the Dusklight Woods and the river and win a lot of time.]
You don't have another totem to the Land of Maidens either, do you? But even if we had one, how'd we get through that aqrabuamelu-infested area? The archaeopteryx will keep waiting for us not too far from the banyan tree, and I have no way of communicating with it across the distance. I'll have to ask Arashi to somehow make it understand that we're gone from there already.
[If only anyone in their outworlder-familiar quartet could speak with animals! Alas.]