Dendro Medley/Metrics

**Date Completed:**6/16/2021
**Previous Role-Play**:
**Users Involved:** User:Katokonia
**Setting:** Svarga , Abraxia
**Celestial Pirates Involved**:
* Avani
* Vynai Venus
* Saturn Rezka

**Abraxi Involved**:
* Uei Chantico
* Uei Eztli (Unnamed)
* Uei Yaotl (Mentioned)
* Uei Ixchel

**Other Characters Involved**:
* Pyta Ceres
* Erudite-33
* Frostgale-22
* Saleiiya
* Serendipity
* Xibalba Cypher
* Petra

## Plot Summary

Mission, Start!

* Begins with Saturn Rezka finishing an explanation of the mission to be tasked to the five being sent, a team consisting of Avani, Vynai Venus, Pyta Ceres, Erudite-33, and Frostgale-22.
* Rezka describes it to be a mission dedicated to scouting out the island of Abraxia, in hopes of either finding supplies of natural resources, or to establish relations with any civilization that lies there.
* Rezka departs, as Saleiiya wraps up the meeting with any final questions or concerns from the party.
* Ceres decided to leave immediately, turning into a taxi and telling the group to board, which is agreed to.
* Ceres then uses her fruit to enter the Endless Highway.

A Likely Encounter

* The group begins traveling on the Highway, with some concern and confusion from the two Scopas, Erudite and Frostgale, who had not travelled with Ceres in this manner before.
* Ceres halts the taxi abruptly, seeing Serendipity on the road.
* A short exchange of greetings occurs, though it is cut short by the sighting of a Black Car. The group decides to follow Serendipity to a nearby Pit Stop to further their conversation.
* The Pit Stop, which is resembling somewhat a bar in nature, is approached and entered, the group taking a seat at a booth with a strange veil and even stranger presence behind it.
* Ordering drinks, the presence disappears, as does the veil. Serendipity and the others converse about various topics as they drink, with Serendipity showing expressed interest in Erudite and Frostgale's composition.
* Serendipity makes mention of Set, much to the surprise of Avani, and to the great confusion of Erudite, who knew nothing regarding the name.
* Serendipity also makes mention of knowing the details of the Kurzhen, though their time is constrained and the topic isn't delved into too much.
* Before they say their goodbyes, Serendipity gives a gift to Frostgale in return for her generosity in giving a gift (a K-TA1) in the place of Ceres.
* Serendipity departs on her bike, and the others get back into the taxi after Ceres transforms.
* They travel without incident for the rest of their time on the highway.

Avana Forest - Cat's Cradle

* The group arrives on a sandy shore on the shore of the Southern Avana Forest.
* The temperature is immediately noticeable, except to Venus who describes it as "Chilly".
* Ceres is given the choice of accompanying the four others or returning in a couple days, and Ceres decided to travel with the group on this journey.
* A large therapod suddenly appears. Erudite and Frostgale aim their guns, ready to fire, but Avani waves them down, as she leaps up above the reptilian and knocks it to the ground in a single blow. She talks to it as it lays on the ground, as if scolding it, before it wanders back into the jungle.
* Avani makes an exclamation of how she feels incredibly powerful in the presence of such an unsullied zone of nature.
* The group begins their trek into the jungle, which is full of massive and erratic flora, alongside cacophonic cries from various animals that live within it.
* After some time, the party begins to feel a presence as if they were being watched. It is described to be full of malice.
* The group arrives at a spring in the ground, when Venus suddenly shoots an arrow about halfway up a nearby tree.
* From behind the tree a masked figure, with the voice of a young girl, appears and talks to the group (Revealed later to be Uei Chantico).
* Avani notes that this girl was not the one they felt, as a spiritic wolf emerged from through, or perhaps within, the tree.
* The wolf is notably sentient and intelligent, and converses with the group as if testing them.
* Chantico hops down from the tree and bombards the five with questions, and is notably able to tell that the Scopas are not actual humans.
* Introductions are made, and Chantico agrees to act as a guide for the five, though sends the spiritic wolf into the ground, and it does not return.
* Chantico leads the group, after a long walk, to a large boulder, behind which waterfalls and birds could be heard.
* After climbing the boulder, a view of a massive lake was seen, waterfalls feeding it on one side, and with a colossal tree sprouting from the center of the lake all the way into the sky. Chantico says that the Great Sage, one of the highest authorities in the nation, lives atop the tree, and says she brought the group here as she thought that they might be interested in seeing the sage.
* Chantico describes the location, but abruptly says she has to leave as battle cries are heard in the distance.
* Frostgale mentions a menacing presence watching the group, and after investigation the source of it seems to be a girl that was sitting on a tree stump by the shore on the other side of the lake. While unnamed, the figure was that of Uei Eztli.
* The figure walks away without incident, though after a short while the group finds themselves surrounded by an alternative threat in the form of five Panthera warriors.
* After explaining that Chantico led them to the boulder, the Panthera were ordered by the lead to vacate the space. The lead Panthera stayed, offering to finish guiding them to the Great Sage.
* The Panthera leads the group down towards the lakeshore, and introduces herself to be Uei Ixchel
* Reaching the lake, the Panthera shows the group a thin pier, saying that they must follow along the pier to reach as close as possible to the base of the tree. She offers to lead them to the edge of the pier, which is gratefully accepted by Avani.
* While walking along the pier, Frostgale has a face-to-face encounter with a massive sauropod feeding on aquatic plants within the lake. It breathes on her, sending mucus into her face, and as she rushes to wash it off with some of the lake-water after the incident concluded, she almost finds herself eaten by a massive crocodile.
* Ixchel says that that crocodile was one of the "smaller ones," and cites that the presence of aquatic beasts is the reason why the pier does not extend all the way to the tree trunk.
* Reaching the end of the pier, Ixchel points at a small staircase on the tree trunk slightly above water level, then showcases a rather shoddy rowboat that she innocently expects the group to use to reach it, she then departs.
* Avani and Venus opt not to use the boat, which would most likely find itself in the mouth of a water monster, and instead move the group to the staircase using some of their techniques.
* The group enters the room the staircase leads into, as Ceres presses an unintelligible button that sends the room flying upwards, showing it to be a large elevator.
* The elevator takes a few minutes to reach the top even with it's high speed, and it opens to reveal a modern room that resembles either a lounge or a waiting room at an office.
* A girl stumbled into the room, and upon seeing visitors quickly rushes back through the door she came from to alert the Great Sage of their presence. She is later revealed to be named Petra
* Petra then returns, asking the group to wait for a few minutes, having them be seated in some of the room's furbished chairs.
* After a short wait, Petra then leads the five down a dim hallway to a slightly less dim room.
* The room resembles a hi-tech laboratory, seated at a desk relatively to the fore is Xibalba Cypher, otherwise known as the Great Sage
* After some discourse, Cypher is found to know things that most even within Svarga aren't aware of, and she displays knowledge inexplicable for an apparent stranger. She notably is aware of, and familiar with, Rezka, alongside a few other individuals.
* Cypher agrees towards an attempt at establishing friendly relations between Svarga and the Abraxi Tribes, though admits it might be difficult to achieve without a unifying force
* Finally, Cypher introduces herself officially, and ominously references herself as a part of a group known as the "Aphotic Dawn"

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