Question of the Day!
Your WoL has finally retired, and settled down to become an NPC.
What's your side quest?
(submitted by @ann-arcana)
DISPATCH FROM AMAUROT - AD INTERROGATIONEM
2136 BELLS - DIE 10 - UMBRAL MOON 5:
SUBJECT:
Regarding Retirement
POLICY: Quaestio Diei
Aellae is leaning against the base of a lamppost in Amaurot on the First, as if she's been expecting you. She has the most enigmatic of smiles on her face.
I've thought about my retirement before, about what I'd like to do. I've bandied many ideas about, including having a coffee and cocoa shoppe called Ancient Beans. For a little bit of a pun there. Though part of me also knows myself, and well, certainly I've strutted and fretted my way across life's stage many a time thus far, and yet, I'm not ready to simple be heard from no more. I think, villain that follows in my wake, I have at least one task for you. I need you to check on the fourth for me. In all it's quirky intricacies it was quite possibly my favourite, in my particular reflection of reality at least.
In this one, it may well still need rescuing from itself, from the end that the convocation had scripted out for it in endless war and hatred. It's entirely possible that the little marker over my head should actually have that meteor outline. But then again, when have I ever done things in the straightforward fashion.
First things first of course, you're going to have to find your way there. You know how to cross the rift of course, you've done that before. You've been to the First, you've been to the Thirteenth. You've got your ways. I shall let you know how I got to the fourth in my timeline, and I'm sure you and 'Shtola can work something out from there.
How best to explain... I once tried to think of the vast distance, that is not vast at all, in terms of a three dimensional plane. This was of course in error but the theory that it gave me was not incorrect, and did function, albeit my initial coordinates were off by a bit, and I'm glad that I had only a little distance to fall into the ocean, rather than arriving inside a mountain, but, I digress. The basis of the theory is this:
As with airship maneuvering, you can not simply think in the X and Y axis on your plane, you must also think of the Z axis. Now, we are adding in yet another coordinate on our plane, a dimensional coordinate, which for this example I will call æ. Let us say that you have all three of your coordinates for your destination, your æ coordinate, and your point of origin. You can make the jump. Much as teleporting on a single reflection, or the source, you must know where you are starting, where you are going, and have the requisite aether stores, or attunement to an aethernet network to carry you.
Possessing the requisite aetheric density and stores, with the coordinates, or if I'm feeling lucky and have a decent approximation. I can go. With knowledge of other reflections, I was able to calculate a reasonably certain location for the fourth, and took the gamble. It paid off.
If you take that information to 'Shtola, or G'raha as well actually, they will likely be able to extrapolate a method of getting to the fourth for you. Enjoy Carmedos. The Largonian capital. False Amaurot isn't the only city with this school of architecture.
We'll find a way to stay in touch once you're there. Good Luck!