[Reverie Isle] Secrets Out At Sea

by **Kavala** on July 2nd, 2012, 3:08 am

Timestamp: 18th of Summer, 512 AV
Location: RF and Reverie Isle
Purpose: Ferrying out Pavilion Supplies
Status: Galys Please

The rebuild of the Port of Riverfall was well under way and the life down at the docks was a bustling as ever. The Konti threaded her way through the throng, headed towards the Harbormaster's office hoping she'd get some advice there on who to hire for a small job she had. It was something the konti had to have hired, because it meant transporting supplies to an island she herself was building off the coast of Sanctuary.

The konti kept her eyes and ears open. She didn't want a large ship. In fact a large one wouldn't be any use to her. She needed a svefra sized vessel.. one of their neat little boats though she didn't know what they were called. In a port city of Akalaks, finding a Svefra wasn't usually hard though telling one apart from a normal human was difficult for the Konti. She'd also take a Charoda or another Konti had they a vessel that would suit.

Kavala stopped a few people as well, on the way to the Harbormaster's office, asking quietly if they had vessels. Some looked Svefra, some didn't, but all had a slight 'seaman' aura to them in their dress and roughness. She didn't have any luck though and kept looking, weaving in and out of the crowd feeling safe despite the roughness of the area.

Riverfall was a woman's paradise. Any Akalak on the dock would defend her right to be there and her safety, bracelet or no, if she looked to need it. Thus the Konti proceeded, her eyes scanning the crowd all the while her eyes running along the vessels moored carefully along the floating docks.

by **Galys** on July 2nd, 2012, 11:45 am

Galys sauntered over the docks aimlessly, humming a Svenfra sea shanty to himself as he scrounged about looking for work. Surely he'd be able to get some kind of something to do, his stomach growled. He'd not eaten for most of the day since leaving his ship, primarily because the last time he'd tried to get a meal, he'd been forced to hand over several of his mizas or risk having the guards called on him - it was madness, the land. One would think that Galys would start to get used to it, but it was difficult to adjust from the Svenfra way of life to hopping from city to city.

The harbormaster was always a good source of work,if all else failed, but it was far more satisfying to find someone on the docks who would pay up front for a job in Galys' experience. There was a Konti wandering about, he noticed, accosting seamen and various sailors - she didn't seem lost, but she seemed to be looking for someone, though he couldn't say whether it was a specific someone or not. Altering his course slightly, he started toward where he predicted she would be by the time that he reached her. Who knew, maybe she'd have a job for him.

oocSorry about the short post, I'm somewhat strapped for time

by **Kavala** on July 3rd, 2012, 4:21 pm

Kavala was so busy trying to spot the right kind of boat, she failed to really pay close attention to where she was going. After stopping and asking several people and ending up feeling silly, she'd opted for a direct route to the Harbormaster's Office, though keeping her eyes out for svefra ships. If they were here they weren't moored close in, that's was for sure because while the port was relatively full, it was currently housing a great many merchant vessels and the like.

She frowned. Maybe it was the wrong time of year for Svefra to be here. Or maybe the djed storm had hit them harder than anyone knew.

She was so lost in this thought she barreled into a large blond man with a beard, almost knocking him down and herself down in the process. She grabbed his arm to keep from falling, then backed off and blushed a deep iridescent color across her scales.

"My pardon. I wasn't watching where I was going. I'm very sorry. Are you alright?" She asked, meeting his gaze and then noting his attire. He almost looked Svefra with his bright blue eyes and manner of dress. Kavala smiled, paused when the fact he could be settled in, and tilted her head.

"You aren't svefra by any chance are you? I'm looking to hire one, but I haven't seen any around here lately. I just have a small ferrying job for one. She added, glancing in the direction of the Harbormaster's Offce. I was just on the way to the Harbormaster to see about hiring someone." She said, looking hopeful.

by **Galys** on July 4th, 2012, 7:08 am

Galys silently awarded himself cleverness points for planning as he helped to make sure that she didn't fall, righting her as best he could, and began to reply in turn, "Well yer in luck, I'm indeed a wayward Svenfra been lookin' fer work this past day. What'sit ye need moved t'where?"

Having just recently dropped his last passenger off days before, he was surprised and delighted by his luck in finding another job so quickly. So long as it paid fairly well and wouldn't lead him into death's arms, Galys would move just about anything just about anywhere at this point.

by **Kavala** on July 5th, 2012, 6:53 am

Kavala eye'd the blond svefra up and down a moment, looked thoughtful and smiled. "It's a simple thing really, for one of your kind and talents. But for me it is far more difficult. I'd like to move some household goods - furniture - to an isle off the coast of Cyphrus. The goods would be purchased here in Riverfall and I could have them sent straight to your ship from the place of purchase here in the Bazaar. The Isle is about five miles from here and a mile off shore. I'm not sure how many trips it would take - surely enough to decorate two spaces of goodly size. Is that something you'd be interested in doing?" Kavala asked, giving him distance but not necessarily where exactly to look for the Isle.

The Konti glanced around, eyes surveying the port, then looked back a the sailor once more. She had a habit of turning so the activity was facing her and her back was strategically somewhere no one was going to come at her from - in this case a stack of crates.

"And how much would you be charging per trip? The furniture is going to consist of several chests, a broken down wooden bed, desk, chairs, table and some crates and boxes of things like linens and curtains." She said, mentally tallying up what would need to be hauled by ship. The Konti smiled again. "I'm not sure how many trips it would take, but I'm betting we can get it all done in one day." The healer said, looking certain.

by **Kavala** on October 7th, 2012, 6:43 pm

After a hard negotiation, Kavala agreed to pay the pleasant svefra 15 gm a trip, which was a small fortune when one considered a svefra would usually charge around 25 gm to take someone to Sylrias if they were already on their way. But that cost involved helping to assist her loading the furniture and goods, as well as unloading them once they got to the island. Kavala knew that with the amount of goods she had, there’d be about two trips from the port and one from the shore. Once Galys had agreed, Kavala got started and they uncrated furniture (For more room) and lugged it onto his casinor. A large four-poster bed disassembled went onto the ship first, followed by two chests, and then crates for bedding books. A wardrobe was also loaded on, along with a desk that fairly well filled up the ships storage for that trip. Kavala arranged with the portmaster to store the rest of the furniture that day, since they’d be back, and the two set sail.

It took only about a half hour to reach the island, the time being explained easily by the fact Galys was a good sailor and the tide was with them. They unloaded the furniture into her living quarters, the svefra helping, and then went back for a second trip. On that run they were able to get the rest of the decorations, books, and rugs that would be used in her new home away from home. A metal firepit and wooden teak furniture along with an outdoor table and chairs, loungers and assorted shadecloths to drape up the pavilion with were included. They stowed the gear neatly onto the Casinor and set off for Reverie one more time. This time they unloaded the goods on the Overlook and Kavala asked the Svefra for one more trip, this time to the shore directly opposite of the island.

There, set out on the beach, was a huge collection of plants and landscaping materials that her and the svefra loaded up. There were sapling trees, wisteria vines, grapes, berry bushes and a whole assortment of shade trees that were fast growing and coastally hardy. Kavala also had hearty coastal herbs and spices, so that whomever was out on the island would have plenty of seasoning for whatever they were cooking or for potpourri if they so desired. The Svefra looked at her silly, but she just shrugged and they loaded up the pots and canvas wrapped root balled trees. Then, next came the bags and bags of soil Kavala had carefully bundled up in used feed bags, intending to haul the soil out to the island to create more substrate for the plants to grow in. The Svefra didn’t react, but patiently loaded up her load, and took one more sail out to the Isle. Together they stacked the plants and sacks of soil up on the overlook so that Kavala could redistribute them later.

She thanked him, paid him his 45 GM for the trips, and carefully began to decorate. She took care of the plants first, of course, for they could not wait for the furniture to be assembled and put together. The soil bags were broke open, and the soil was backfilled into cavities she carved out of the stone.

by **Kavala** on October 14th, 2012, 4:05 am

Landscaping wasn't tricky, especially if you knew earth reimancy.

Kavala picked a spot she’d want a tree to grow, and lay her hands down on the rock. She’d slowly extrude djed, coating the rock and infusing it, then changing its nature to sand. Then, she’d scoop out the sand, leaving large hollows to where she could then refill with soil and plant things in. She made sure the hollows were large enough for a healthy root system with lots of space for the trees to grow. Sending djed down into the rock, creating fissures and pockets where roots could grip and expand helped tremendously. They were the perfect, albeit artificial, places to plant trees and know they'd thrive.

She even crafted flower beds. Some of these ‘flower beds’ she hollowed out in the stone were at irregular intervals, letting them wrap around the island in formations that left interesting structure for the herbs and trees to reside in. Kavala made sure there was enough room, depth, and space for soil for each type of plant, especially careful of the grapes and westeria. Though they too needed the special touch of a reimancer to thrive.

For privacy and shade, Kavala built up huge djed created stone lattices that covered the back side of the pavilion and wrapped partially around the terraces at waist height giving the grape and westeria vines somewhere to curl up around and cling too. Those creations weren’t hard, though she took no time to make them symmetrical, finding the asymmetry more interesting to her eyes. Kavala grasp stone, pulling it upwards while djed infused it, much like a taffy maker would make taffy, letting the stone take on a life of its own as it rose up almost in waves, pulled by her djed and reimancy, to cascade over and weave with the next bit of stone she made. These stone ‘fences’ or ‘trellis’ were remarkably suited for the tender young grape vines she planted at their base. And just to make sure they had an added boost, the Konti dove for seaweed from the kelp beds and brought big basket full of it up to the vines to pack around them, giving them guaranteed food as the seaweed decayed and the plants grew.

All and all, landscaping took days, even though she had the plants right there. There was planning, thinking ahead, always fulfilling the needs of what the plant would require not just that very moment but in the time to come.

by **Kavala** on October 14th, 2012, 4:45 pm

There was just one last thing to do before Kavala could consider The Isle complete. She needed to crawl up onto the stone roof of the pavilion and layer tiles she created herself from the peak to the facia so that water drained off and didn't erode the structure. To get to the roof, Kavala carefully called up djed, forming res, and extruding it to where she brought stone up, straight up, and formed a ladder from the ground to the ceiling, placing in rungs as she moved upwards. It would be disguised by the grape and westeria that would soon grow around the pavilion, but until then it served as a perfect foothold for her to scurry to the roof and perch on the peak.

Kavala managed to alight the peak, then started from the lowest point and worked outwards and upwards lining around the roof at the eaves and moving upwards, always sitting on the roof above the tile line. She cupped her hands, pooled res into them, and formed clay tiles that had a slight curve. Kavala then inverted them, laying them on the peak of the stone roof and sent a tendril of res into the roof to fuse the tile to the roof holding it in place. She then created another tile and repeated the process, laying them side by side until she had the roofing done. One would have thought she would have made the isle roof out of the same stone she'd used for the island itself. But no, she picked instead a bright color... a happy red that blended well with the blue and grey and made the roof pop from Sanctuary's view inland. She wanted to be able to spot her isle in all sorts of weather from onshore, though have it be hidden from site offshore. The plants would do that well enough. But in the meantime the roof would be a beacon for anyone looking outward.

All in all the roof took a full day to complete. And after it was done, Kavala decided the only thing left to do was facade the island in fresh stone. She wanted to be done, but the truth was the project was one of those things that never seemed to want to be done.

Her color choice was black, like the Chavi, with Opal Rainbows infused. She could do it in the form of rainbow obsidian, so that's how she decided to finish it. Coming back the next day, she'd get started.

by **Kavala** on October 21st, 2012, 11:18 pm

Kavala started the next day, doing the top layer of stone and finishing off her home away from home. She knew the time was fast approaching that she'd need a place to get away from it all. It wasn't that the Sanctuary was wearing on her for it wasn't. The simple fact was that solitude with the denizens increasing daily was becoming harder and harder for her to find. She wanted a place to meditate, relax, and have some alone time where no one needed anything from her.

Reverie Isle was that for her. And perhaps it was inaptly named, but Kavala didn't think so... it meant a state of dreaming, of absent minded meditation. And Kavala designed it to be a fortress onto itself. Reverie Isle was her dream. Isolated, only really accessible from the sea by land creatures, it would be the first to be storm tossed and the last to be pillaged. It was connected to the Sanctuary via the sea tunnel that ended in the Sea Cave so it wasn't a death trap for the people out on the isle if a boat was lost. But it wouldn't allow them to breath, not really, unless they had some magical means for the cave attaching it to The Sanctuary was flooded with seawater.

So she swam out early, an piece of rainbow obsidian in her hand, and rose from the water. Kavala traversed the steps upwards, taking Tasival with her, and together they changed their clothing and got warm. She bundled him onto the veranda overlook and left him in sight with a few toys then got to work. She took out the obsidian piece, gazed deep inside it, and tried to feel how it was formed, what it looked like, and what made it unique. There were layers there, as if it were glass. The glass seemed to be layered with air pockets that gave it a shimmer. Kavala held the stone in her hand and then began to produce res, coating the nearest banister with it, layering it, willing it to mimic the obsidian in her hand until it too was smooth, clean, and had no sharp edges but layers and layers of stone, so fine, so delicate that it was like hair thin and bright. She put colors into it, tailoring it after the rainbow obsidian, placing the colors in the range of blues and greens with the occasional pink or golds.

Tasival came over sometimes, to help and marvel at the stone that flowed out between her hands, crafted by the res she produced. The feeling was extraordinary, flowing from her manifesting onto the already built structure. The isle thrummed around her, flowing with her energy. Her son ran his hands through the work, while it was still hardening, and his patterns made decorations on the stone as well, etching his presence there as they did the rail and and coated the overlook.

She was tired fast, and at that Kavala worried. She used to be able to go all day and create, but things had changed. It took her a full ten days, returning often to the island, to coat the pavilion, cave exterior and interior, and stone terraces with steps. The island slowly darkened, gleamed, and lit up with an inner fire that resembled the aurora borealis trapped in stone.

Kavala loved it, was proud of it, and at the end of summer walked away with it completed: her sanctuary outside of The Sanctuary.

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by **Jackalope** on November 8th, 2012, 8:22 pm

Kavala

Award

Skill	XP Earned	Lore Earned
Negotiation	+1	Trying to Spot a Svefra
Organization	+2	Getting a Good Deal
Reimancy	+4	Building with Earth
Construction	+2	Completing Reverie Isle
Swimming	+1
Observation	+1

Ledger: You already have it figured out. Thanks.

Galys

Award

Skill	XP Earned	Lore Earned
		Looking For Work

Ledger: +45GM

Jackalope's Notes

Galys, you weren't active enough to get much out of this. Congrats on completing your Isle, Kavala! If you have any questions or concerns regarding your grade, please send me a PM and we can figure it out.