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 Luka Solaspon So you know how to summon a fire. You gather a sumptuous feast, little appetizer kindling, then a nice, dry, fatwood steak for the main course. Then you bring out your little shiny dinner triangle and play that *flick flick* "soups on" song and light the way with sparks until they come. But then you just tempt them with all the stuff that you wanted to eat. Seal it in a pot, put it behind bars, maybe they get some drippings, but really they're getting nothing else on purpose. No, I lied. When you're done with them, their dessert is a pail of water and a boot to the face! Where's your sense of hospitality? Anyway that's why I threw some of your food in the fire--you didn't need it all trust me--BUT! It's also all of why I'm here. There's a fire out there that gets it even worse than your little Bon and I'll tell you who. Sola! Did you know... that every day she has to get so close she can smell you browning, but every night she mercifully, lovingly turns away, when she'd like nothing better to reach down and take a big bite? Imagine the discipline that takes. I can't. But I also shouldn't because I'm eating for two! She sent me down here to taste the whole world for her, then, when my quest is complete, I climb the tree, she picks me back up and I tell her all about it! It'll be just like she was here, except here will still be here afterwards. Mostly. quote:The Immolator Well, I already said I gotta taste the world. But it's a little more complicated than that. The way I tell Sola about what's happened is via a sorta smoke signal. Gotta burn up the memories so they can float up to her. I get left with just some coals, maybe some shine, maybe little hard glittery rocks, maybe spent ashes. That means there's something hard for me to taste: the thing that makes people settle and live comfortably, day after day, for the same repetitive experience. The closest I get to that is a little déjà vu that lets me know I'm wasting my time on something I've already had and told Sola about. It's funny, because it is my mission to taste that thing and it isn't, at the same time. Maybe because it's so hard to imagine I want it more than anything. Whatever it is. Basically Luka will have to break their own heart by tasting something so good it eclipses their own mission and give it up to complete the mission. Maybe it's happened before. Maybe it happens all the drat time. What's the most interesting place you've been to on the Islands? What made it so interesting? Did you like it? So I jumped off a cliff just to see what it'd be like. It was pretty cool once I learned how to fall faster, otherwise it gets pretty samey after five or ten seconds. Anyway I woke up on this great big rainbow sandbar. White sand, red sand, orange sand, purple sand, green sand, black sand, just all over the place. Water must have all dried up before I got there. No people, no questions or jobs or duties, just all this great sand that made great glass. I made a little place for myself, just out of windows, where no matter the room I can see Sola. And kind of dress her up too. In pink! I stayed there for a while by myself until I realized I really should get back to my mission. I was... refreshed, and sometimes when I'm explaining for the billionth time that I don't remember you or owe you anything to some pushy folker I think about taking another vacation. Haven't forgotten the way, not yet. slydingdoor fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Harrow posted:1. Most people see Sola as life-giving light, but you know different. People forget how hot, how fiery the light can be. If you could tell everyone in the world one thing about Sola, what would it be? quote:2. Are there many like you, Luka? Or are you one of a kind? What do people who meet you think about you? Other, weirder people like to give me a hard time and make me jump through hoops to get something new they heard about and maybe they can get it for me if I'm interested. It's a bunch of nonsense and sideways talk that always means the same thing. I save a lot of time with this handy cheat sheet that I just shove at them.  My favorite people want to work with me to make stuff. Like they've found some metal or other stuff that needs Solaspon fire to become pliable, then heatproof hands to shape. If there's something in it for me I give them my best effort. That's how I got these sweet metal dancing slippers that let me walk around without leaving a burn trail, and ribbons that I can wind around my wispy tail thing just so and make into the illusion of legs or a butt or whatever. They catch the light a little better than the charcoal I used on my top half, dontcha think?
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Aug 20, 2015 22:26
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Luka can't get burned, so would do well as a gunner/engine room person. Usopp, I will teach you the TRUE meaning of sacrifice: (it's letting me eat all those dumb gadgets from the surface world, they don't belong here!). Also they're the reason you can't live your life.
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Aug 25, 2015 17:05
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The fire is like completely contained with a soot suit and flexible insulation to give Luka a human form. And cool hair. Gunpowder would be safe. Making a creature without tastebuds the cook would be far more dangerous. Like Chef Bender, basically.
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Aug 25, 2015 17:42
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It's more of a sculpture/reverse hazmat suit. Otherwise looking at Luka is like staring into the sun, and everything's melting and on fire. Luka can't remember anyone in particular vaporizing themselves trying to creep on them, but the memory'd probably belong to Sola anyway, wouldn't it? So yeah, no one would have dinner, except ME. Or Sola. Whatever.
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Aug 26, 2015 17:28
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Luka knows poo poo only the Sola could know and doesn't share. That's why all those box gadgets need to go, they're dangerous. And telling certain curious cats the details of why they're dangerous... is dangerous! Why's everyone else gotta want something really bad for everyone? Including themselves...
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Aug 26, 2015 18:01
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I still have 2 bonds to fill. Anyone want them? I'll answer questions or work together on some. Maybe in irc or whatever if that's easier just name a room.
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Aug 27, 2015 18:38
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So Luka lets people gamble for shine by giving up rarities to Sola. Maybe there's something Gett threw in but had second thoughts about despite/because of the rewards or lack thereof? The other thing I was thinking about was maybe Luka knows something about the late Lunar empire. Perhaps it is the fate of all planets who've lost their stars to join or conquer one still with a light giving sun and raw materials yet unmined. And maybe many Dark planets train infiltrators to seduce powerful people with similar "antiwar princess" narratives. Allowing the "resistance" within the invading force might have been their contingency plan. And since Gett's last marriage was a mistake (that ended amicably, granted), so he might have been a priority target for Seluna. Then Luka would want to therapeutically destroy any physical hooks she still had in Gett. Just thoughts none of these have to be canon.
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Aug 27, 2015 19:15
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That film owns. How about "Gett has a keepsake from Seluna the Moon Princess that could bring her back, but then she could bring her people back. I need to find a way to get him to give it up...or gamble it away. That'd save everyone a lot of trouble."
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Aug 27, 2015 22:59
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quote:I owe Roarke something I think. Sola'd know, I can't remember, and he's not helping! Secrets are so dumb. That work? He seems like someone who'd gently caress with the amnesiac.
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Aug 29, 2015 16:23
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I'm totally gonna keep spamming this Burns x2 as Bright move to deny Roarke from ever gaining XP until he tells me the secret. And the companion move to gain XP whenever I want! Actually, can I retroactively use that on my Volley roll from earlier to turn it into a fail?
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Sep 3, 2015 18:45
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