Skylark's Ideal World | Session 3

[idolpro]

Once, there was a maiden...
...who was driven from her land.
Great black stags chased her, and their eyes shone blue.
Monsters scrambled after her through the bush, though they found her not.
Stumbling on a log, she fell and thought to surrender, and end the torment of the hunt—

... ... ...

You're so, so tired.

Why carry on?

... Surely, it's okay to take a break—

Comments

Re: START: THE BEACH

[weenwoon]

[He's definitely already splashing.]

I'm mainly concerned about the lack of reflection. Is it the sun that's not real or the water?

Re: START: THE BEACH

[scattershot]

Well, the water seems, real enough, and we certainly have no way of getting close enough to the sun to examine it.

Re: START: THE BEACH

[weenwoon]

You never know until you try!

[But he stops splashing to squint upwards anyway.]

Do you know what this reminds me of? A simple lamp. The light oughtn't be that bright unless it's really close to us, but then we'd have been baked, I'd wager. But it's not much hotter than you'd expect.

Re: START: THE BEACH

[scattershot]

As if one had merely heard the sun and sky described to them, and then tried to recreate it here...

I wonder if it moves.

Re: START: THE BEACH

[weenwoon]

[HMMMM]

Well, if it does, it ought to move with the passage of time... If we can find some kind of long stick, we could make a simple sundial and see if it does move!

Re: START: THE BEACH

[scattershot]

That's an excellent idea. This is a beach, after all. There must be some driftwood somewhere.

[She's going to start walking through the waves, searching the shoreline.]

Re: START: THE BEACH

[weenwoon]

[He scans the shore, too - ah!]

There - there's something over there, I think!

[As a tall person he can see farther, therefore]

Re: START: THE BEACH

[scattershot]

Over there? All right, I'll be right back...!

[Time to DO SCIENCE TO THINGS.

[... going swimming would probably have been easier, but this has at least a vague possibility of actually proving productive.

[She's back a short while later, holding a suitably lengthy-looking stick.]

Re: START: THE BEACH

[weenwoon]

[Shh, swimming can wait. We have SCIENCE to do!!]

Ah, great! Now we just need to put it in the sand and track the movement of the shadow.

[He squats down to pick out a few suitably small/narrow stones.]

Right, these can serve as tracking points.