Radio - 03 Knight Warrior

[radiantwingedone]

[ Loosely private to Yuri Lowell ]

Setting up a test run. [ Yuri did say to keep in touch. ]

I'm at the shore on the fire-sector side. Rather test in the distance rather than over heads, less likely to alarm that way.

Comments

[wolfstrike]

[That he did, and so Yuri doesn't take long to answer.]

I hear you.

That's prooobably a good idea.

[Last thing they need is to alarm the locals.]

[radiantwingedone]

What I thought. [ He isn't terrible at these things all the time, honest. ]

Although I have no idea what shape the crest at the top will look...

[ Sounds of Duke sitting down. ]

[wolfstrike]

Hm? Everything okay over there?

[Why did he stop in the middle of his sentence like that?]

[radiantwingedone]

Yes. I would rather sit and work on this.

[ Duke talks to himself, okay. He isn't used to thinking these things at people. ]

Focusing now. It will take a moment for anything to start. Haven't made anything this large ... in a while ...

[wolfstrike]

Hey, who said you could sit down on the job?

[Kidding, Duke. Kidding.]

What are the chances this thing'll work anyway?

[radiantwingedone]

[ Exasperated sigh.

He's speaking slowly now. Focusing on two things. ]

I think it is medium to high for success. Barriers keep out monsters all the time... I've tested it on a personal scale, I could keep water out...

[wolfstrike]

Yeah, but have you ever tested it here?

[He's no mage but even he knows this world runs differently than their own. Even though they're still able to use their bodhi blastia.]

[radiantwingedone]

I was testing the small one here.

[ Absently he adds: ]

I haven't set up a barrier blastia upon Terca Lumireis either.

[wolfstrike]

Oh...

[Well okay then. He'll just... sit here and wait. And hope that Duke succeeds. The odds are looking pretty good though.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Of course, obviously Duke had studied barrier formula, or he wouldn't have a base for this.

Duke, as usual, is comfortable with silence. Everything is going well, and explaining what he is doing would be lost on Yuri anyway.

Comfortable silence until there is a flicker of the familiar barrier lights in the sky.

Which promptly flicker out, Duke makes a noise like someone punched him in the gut, and then it's somewhat ominous silence. ]

[wolfstrike]

[That... didn't sound good.]

Whoa, hey... what's going on? Duke?

[radiantwingedone]

[ Unless Yuri is listening really close, it's just all silence.

Duke is sort of out of it and away from his radio at the moment. So ... uneven breathing. ]

[wolfstrike]

DUKE!

[Nothing.]

Dammit!

[And without really thinking, Yuri drops everything and takes off running. Heading for the area that Duke had described, the shore near the Fire Sector.]

-> action?

[radiantwingedone]

[ By the time Yuri gets there, Duke is a miserable looking ball on the ground, one arm over his face and the other his stomach.

The area has some of the charged feel that is similar to too much aer in one place, and Duke is a couple of feet back from where his radio is. ]

[wolfstrike]

[It took Yuri awhile. It was a long way after all on foot, but as determined as he was, he hardly slowed down at all. Upon catching sight of Duke, he sprinted over and knelt down next to his fellow citizen of Terca Lumireis. Giving the other man a shake and assessing the situation.]

Hey, you all right?

[radiantwingedone]

[ It takes Duke a moment to react more than sort of wobbling with Yuri's shaking. He grimaces, and flails the arm that had been over his face to try to get the shaking to stop. ]

better if... [ He just grimaces again. The shaking made his stomach hate everything, let him get settled again. ]

[wolfstrike]

[Okay he's alive at least, so Yuri stops the shaking and instead sits down next to him.]

So I take it that didn't go so well.

[It definitely felt weird. What went wrong?]

Can you stand?

[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke can't quite place what did or didn't go well, feeling entirely too headachy and ill. Obviously something had, but the details are really hard to pick out.

That last however. He isn't sure why that is a question. ]

Yes. [ He sounds little confused.

He also doesn't get to much more than a crouch in trying to stand. His balance wobbles, and he ends up face down on the ground in confusion. The ground moved on him- ]

Must... have slipped into a krene...

[wolfstrike]

[Yuri just continued to sit there and watch as Duke tried to get up and... faceplanted. Yeah... that's what he thought.

With a sigh he pushes himself up and moves over to bend down and place Duke's arm around his shoulder to help the guy up.]

Last time I checked, turtles don't have krene.

[radiantwingedone]

[ No resistance to getting hauled up - partially because Duke was still trying to figure out how he landed on his face to begin with, and the rest because clearly he needs it. Here's another of the too-light to be quite healthy brigade!

And he's trying to figure out why he couldn't have slipped into a krene. Turtle? Oh. Right. ]

Still feel aer sick.

[wolfstrike]

[Aer sick.. was that even possible here? There wasn't Aer in this place right? Though their blastia still worked. Still, Yuri wasn't going to pretend he knew how that stuff worked.]

Right... well, let's get you to a clinic.

[And with that Yuri starts leading Duke back to town, slowly.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Either way, he is pretty sure he was punched in the face by magic. That's more or less the same, right?

Duke focuses on the walking part. This is a good thing because he kinda needs to focus on the staying upright, as crappy as he's feeling at the moment... but also a bad thing. He's feeling terrible, and the last time he had felt this way was quite some time ago, being helped by someone else.

They're probably pretty close when Duke's foggy thoughts make him pretty sure this is a home thing, not a turtle thing. It doesn't quite make sense, but of course, not much at the moment does. ]

I'm sorry.

[wolfstrike]

[A good portion of the trip is then silence then. But when Duke finally does speak up, Yuri glances over at him in a bit of surprise.]

Hey, don't sweat it. You gave it your best.

[radiantwingedone]

[ Right. Turtle, Yuri- ]

... Sorry, it is... hard for me to think, when.... feel aer sick. [ He thought you were someone else for a moment. There's something like a grimace - he's not entirely certain now, that he wants to be in a town, in a city, while not at his best. People. ]