the little one stops to shut the gate :: [OPEN]

[baedalites.livejournal.com]

Who: A whole lot of ants and YOU!
What: Exploring houses overrun by giant ants! Interacting with ants!
Where: Three specific ant hive houses have cropped up in Baedal.
When: The ants become visible late Sukkardi, so any time after Shundi will do.
Notes: To organize expeditions into the ant hives and to see what your characters will find there, please see the OOC post. NPCs, general GMing, and mod guidance are all available upon request.
Warnings: Bugs! Possible horror. Will update as needed.

When the ants come out of the ground it happens very quietly and it happens at night. Baedal wakes up to chitinous sound of insect labour. At first there is some panic - memories of strange creatures emerging from below to attack the city fresh in everyone's mind - but it is soon evident that the ants, while curious, pose no immediate threat to the City. They seem content to work and live inside the houses they have occupied; houses no one has noticed or cared about for years.

Soon, the ant-occupied houses begin to change. The ants are building something on the rooftops, something like towers, stretching towards the heavens. Birds that fly too close to the buildings quickly disappear.

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[cassie_of_troy]

Well, that was fairly peculiar. Up until this point, the other women had seemed, to Cassandra, at least, entirely fearless. Curious. And fearless. Why should the mirrors be any more threatening than enormous ants? Cassandra could think of nothing.

Unwinding a bit of the thread from her bobbin, she took a few tentative steps forward, a bit amused, really, by her own reflection. She had never quite anticipated looking like a Spartan girl before. Apollo, doubtlessly, would have a lurid comment or two about her legs. Fortunately, he was nowhere to be seen.

Coward.

"Do you sense something?" she asked Jones.

[wandandsickle]

"No, it's just..." She wrinkles her nose. "Mirrors are rather magically potent. From the look of this place, I'd have to wonder if someone was doing a major working in here, or... I don't know. I can't tell what they were doing in here, which is rather what worries me."

[cassie_of_troy]

Well, Jones was the expert.

Delicately, Cassandra walked back over to her. "All right," she said. "We won't go in."

[wandandsickle]

"All right," says Jones, slowly. "Well, we should probably check the other room, as well. I have a feeling a lot of people are going to find this very interesting, if they haven't already investigated this themselves." The Militia in particular. Perhaps this'll get her off the hook for good behavior, who knows?

She shrugs her shoulders a little, a stretching motion, as she heads toward the other door. "Do you make anything of this?"