[P] the edge of paradoxes

[Random Events]

A Random Event Has Occurred!

It begins with a low tone, a droning that could almost be music. As soon as Antiope’s ax falls into the wall of ivy the sound is there, a hum like a mountain might make, or like all the bees in the world together as one.

Beetles begin to crawl out of the ivy from the place the ax struck. Their shells glisten, hard, gleaming like stones - because they are stones, they are agate and amber, beryl and garnet and topaz. The beetles are eating the leaves, though the sound of their eating - a terrible sound! - is more like click of machines than insects.

They eat and they eat until there is a hole opened up in the wall about the size of a fist, or of a heart. And then the hundreds of beetles all take flight at once, bursting out like bats between the two horses. Very quickly they are only a black cloud against the blue sky (like a cloud of ash). Very quickly the awful sound of them has died away and there is only that hum, that ringing, that endless tone like the singing of a planet or a moon. It grows fainter and fainter and then it dies away altogether, and there is only a small hole in the ivy, a round little window into another world.



 

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@Antiope might realize that the sound she's hearing is something more than the sea and the echo of the beating ivy. She might also realize that while it's a slow reaction that her axe hasn't failed her, although perhaps the magic of the ivy has made the workings of it wrong. In the place where she struck stone beetles starts to pour out. They are almost as lovely as they are horrible. But it's what they leave behind that really matters.

Antiope will be awarded +100 signos for encountering a Random Event! How you reply is up to you; feel free to NPC the beetles or anything else.

Enjoy!