Aldebaran Maia
Aldebaran Maia (a.k.a. Adli)
Aldebaran Maia was originally from a Nebula plane off-world, called the Reflection Nebula, and crash landed onto Liminal when the world collapsed.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Aldebaran is 3 feet tall and has an average build for someone who is 3 feet tall. Though ae are abnormally dense for some strange reason.
Body Features
For most purposes Adli is humanoid with skin that occasionally has a night sky pattern that crosses it, downward floppy ears that have tiny tufts of hair on them, and one antler like horn that curves up off the right side of aer head.
On aer back there are two petrified (like petrified wooden) fairy-like wings and a tail that looks something like that between a deer and fox.
On aer back there are two petrified (like petrified wooden) fairy-like wings and a tail that looks something like that between a deer and fox.
Facial Features
Normal eyes with hazel irises and black pupils. Aer skin is mostly greyish-pink with some sploches of what looks like a dark sky and stars on the left side of aer face.
Identifying Characteristics
One horn-like antler, splochy night sky on aer skin that sometimes dissappears, drooping ears with little fur tufts on the end. Occasional canine tail and abnormally sharp fingernails. Ae also have two what look like almost petrified downpointing fairy-like wings on aer back.
Physical quirks
Very uncoordinated
but a good dancer
very strong for aer size
Special abilities
Return to Form- an ability (Celestrial Champion) allows Adli to return to one of aer original forms prior to Liminal
Apparel & Accessories
mismatched armor on uniform, gyroscope necklace that looks like it was supposed to do... something? An odd lantern at aer side.
Specialized Equipment
Navigations and Recording Strange Magic
Mysticias (Magic Studies Department)
Mysticias (Magic Studies Department)
Mental characteristics
Gender Identity
Not applicable
Sexuality
Asexual and a confused romantic
Employment
Currently employed in the Mysticias as a magical researcher and their navigator.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Celestial cartographer
Magical Navigator Forklift Operator
Magical Navigator Forklift Operator
Intellectual Characteristics
Adli is autistic (as far as this society is concerned) and mentally ill (from a trying time and radical plane shift) though neither of these have stopped aer integration into the crew.
Morality & Philosophy
Be compassionate before being hostile.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Find a place and purpose in the universe.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Loves making charts but is bad when taking directions.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes dancing, books, maps, plants, and being helpful.
Dislikes small talk.
Dislikes small talk.
Virtues & Personality perks
Compassionate and curious
Vices & Personality flaws
Oblivious and manic
Social
Contacts & Relations
The Wandercrew
Religious Views
Other stars will help guide you
Social Aptitude
Terrible in social situations
Mannerisms
Consistently instroduces aerself as Addled on accident
Hobbies & Pets
Keeps a pet called Glitter, a Luminwisp that likes shiny things and is a great forest navigator
Aldebaran (Adli) Maia is an unknown type of humanoid with petrified wings, a tail, and star splotched skin. Ae fell to Liminal just as the shield went up and was rescued by the crew. Currently ae work in Mysticias.
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Age
1-500+
Date of Birth
?
Birthplace
The Reflection Nebula
Children
Current Residence
The Silver Thimble
Gender
Not Found
Eyes
Hazel and oddly normal looking
Hair
Brown with white flecks
Height
3 ft
Weight
about 200 lbs
Quotes & Catchphrases
"Oops."
"I did that?"
"I did that?"
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Fiction
Adli
I don’t know but maybe this will be the first page I’d ever burn on purpose. I don’t really feel like I can turn in this report even if maybe Osiria, Ivo, or Zacna do. But I guess the point is… books can have their own worlds in the pages.You can make other planes exist. Something called the Spirit of Fiction has done this. But Fiction, or the Cosmic Liar, has the power to corrupt books, and travel between well, fiction books. And now it’s loose, somehow, after lifting a curse on me.
I don’t want anyone else’s memories or stories to be changed. I haven’t even been able to find or even record anything from my own home yet. And after what Tsoki said I don’t want anyone else losing their histories. If there’s a way to create a world or a safe space to hide things maybe knowledge would be safe from him there. Maybe little libraries in their own dimensions. Maybe I’d be able to build something like a home and keep my memories there. In the way they are supposed to be read, or seen, or felt.Not using words that never capture what I need them too.
At least to keep things away from her, or… to stop them from being changed. And maybe a place to rest and just feel comfortable again, assuming I can’t find another way home, or if I’m not allowed back home. I just need to figure out how before things start becoming well… fiction.
[This page was later burned]
A Favor; The walking constellations
Aldebaran Maia
Objective;
Find and observe strange creatures north of the Silver Thimble and South of Consonant. These creatures are native to large plains directly south of Consonant [coordinates and mapping of area enclosed with original report].
Quet was in charge of researching the culture and area. Zacna and Clovis were our scout and guide (Clovis having a history dealing with large creatures). All documents of this plain describe amazing beautiful creatures but not what they look like. There is also an important taboo; Quet was in charge of looking into that.
Day one;
We stayed at [coordinates redacted] for a night and were able to document several parts of the sky for airship travel to be communicated back to the Silver Thimble. That night while star charting I attempted to show something to Clovis. Clovis took my telescope and moved it and caught sight of a muzzle flash. While Zacna and Quet were scouting and found a creature that was glowing slightly and then Zacna heard a silencer shot and it disappeared.
Considering the timing of events the creature probably went down when the muzzle flash was seen. When Zacna and Quet returned we figured out the location of the shooter and went to investigate.
Upon investigation a hunter from Gibbet was collecting a creature that was to be ground up and used as fuel for a mana battery. The creature seemed to be a large dog… or boar? like creature had small wings or protrusions from its back. It was covered in stars and constellations that glowed a bright blue. The creature gave off a strange orange hue from the recon visor but the hunter from Gibber was not visible at all while looking through it.
We did end up startling him because upon Zanca’s agreement I transformed into a lion-like creature and took away the hunter’s gun to ensure they didn’t think any of the crew were dangerous and had no ability to shoot us. He was not happy about this. Though after the initial conversation Zacna did tell me to return his weapon and let him go. We later found out this individual's name was Copper.
Day two;
In the morning Quet radio-ed back to call for a fly-over of the airship to look for more creatures:
‘We had a sighting of a creature and a potential hostile that shot at the creature. We are requesting assistance for someone to fly over and see if there are any signs of what occurred.’
-Message received in full by Officer Patagon
This flyover revealed the location [included in regular mapping projects, not celestial charts] of a camp that was heavily camouflaged. This appeared to be the camp for the hunters from Gibbet.
That day we went searching for more of the creatures, as Quet’s initial attempt to take a picture of the dead creature the night before failed. Clovis found tracks from some vehicle. Zacna noticed some large reverberations in a field a little ways away and it seemed like it was something… massive? It was extremely hard to follow but we did our best. Not catching up to it that day.
Despite Zacna’s impatience we pitched camp that night instead of following. While Quet worked on developing photos he had taken of the seemingly empty air, Clovis went to investigate a comotion nearby. Upon investigation Clovis found several hunters (Boron, Ox, Mercury, and Copper) taking down a large boar creature with the similar celestial markings to the sky. He reportedly did not help them in this but radioed Zacna. With Quet’s permission Zacna and I left camp while she tried to finish developing the photo.
Zacna and I arrived just as one of the Gibbet hunters shot the boar in the head.
I was going to investigate the remains but Copper, the one we met earlier, pointed a firearm at me so I walked back toward the group. Then Officer Quet radioed the group to inform us that killing these creatures was taboo to all cultures on this side of the world. The creatures are revered. This effectively made the Gibbet hunters poachers.
It was then that Clovis informed me, quietly, that the creature was still alive. When I asked if we should heal it or let it die Clovis said he could not heal the creature. I informed him that I could and he distracted the hunters so I could get closer. It was then that I heard a shot and apparently Zacna had shot one of the people from Gibbet who had a gun pointed at me, with the apparent intention to open fire.
This is where I am a little… confused about events. I, we, were upset. The other voices (or dialogues as Quet refers to them) in my head would not tolerate this. I remember a lapse in vision and senses and then being a different… me. My sight changed to a far more colorful, broader, spectrum and a much more familiar body made of light and gravity. It had the strange feeling of familiarity and belonging. I do not know what I was, but the crew informed me later I looked not myself. I, we, healed the creature, more so than I would normally have been capable of.
The poachers, when informed that what they were doing was illegal, in a sense, tried to justify their actions. Then one of them looked through some kind of lens at our group.
Upon looking at Clovis and Zacna he didn’t say anything I could hear. But then when he got to me, and especially Quet, he said something along the lines of “A little more work isn’t too bad”. And two pointed these guns (more like net launchers) at Officer Quet and I. Quet attempted to entangle the poachers in grass to try to stop the confrontation. This only agitated the fireflies living in the grass. The fireflies apparently have some latent magic and randomly give off magical effects? At this a member of the poachers (I believe Mercury) was aiming at one of us. Zacna made a clear shot and we (I?) overcharged the projectile’s momentum. This had the effect of taking the poachers head clean off. And I will state for the record; was not my intention.
One of the other poachers laying near Quet (the one that Zacna had shot in the arm to stop them from shooting me) reached for some type of knife with a syringe. The rest of me (my voices) were mad and I wanted to help Officer Quet so we threw them [approximated at 14000 feet or more is my estimate] into the air through the fireflies before they hit the ground (after the rest of the end of the confrontation).
Clovis intercepted several attacks aimed at us. While one of the members with a weapon similar to gauntlets cast an effect that seemingly killed the fireflies around them. This had some type of anti-magic effect and knocked me back to my current physical state. Zacna went to attack this individual and when I came to my senses again, as just me, I noticed that this person was reaching for Zacna. I jumped to hold his arms and Zacna… I believe the term is bisected him? I do not wish to repeat the experience of being covered in blood and whatever else is inside the people who live on this plane.
The last poacher, Boron, loaded a mana battery into some kind of arm cannon. Quet attempted to stop the cannon with a spell. But it only slightly worked. I learned later the spell in the gauntlet was meant to instantly kill. Clovis intercepted this and managed to jam the a mechanism on the gauntlet which caused it to explode. Along with its owner. However this directed the spell at Clovis instead of Zacna, who seemed to be the original intended target.
I managed to bring Clovis back, thankfully. In time to see the beast walking away from the area after Zacna extinguished the light from the weapon he carried.
With Quet safe, and Clovis and Zacna still alive, we all watched the creature leave. I felt a profound sense of… gratitude? From this being, as if it were talking to me like I talk to others when I am shapeshifted. Quet seemed to confirm my observation.
We then loaded what we could find of the bodies into the vehicle the poachers had and made our way back to camp. The next day while breaking down the camp the airship arrived with Krieg, Nichol, and Caram. I am not sure who radioed in though there was some mention of a message from my communicator that I was unaware I had sent. They helped us pack up camp and did some searching for other poachers. At least that was my understanding? I know enough to know that the man I threw away from Quet had expired, nevermind the others that were dispatched.
All of our gear was collected and this report has been reviewed briefly by Quet who was aware of most of the details in this missive. All charts [containing locations and maps of the area] are being handed over to navigations.
Our campsites and creature sightings include [Redacted] locations. The poachers camp was approximately [Redacted] from our last camp site.
The Creatures:
The creatures across these plains come in all shapes and sizes. But all seem to share a few common characteristics. For starters they are only visible in starlight. In any other light source they become invisible and nearly weightless. Seemingly “barely in this world”. But in starlight they regain all their mass and form. All seem to have constellations that glow all over their body along with some crystallizations on their body. Some of these constellations resemble those in the night sky. None of them had constellations I recognize, nor ones I have seen on my own transformations. If these creatures are taken out of their natural habitat in the planes they instantly die. Thusly the Gibbet poachers killed them and probably ground them up for their concentrated magic before leaving the plains (most likely?). Further study is needed but they seem to eat fireflies. Perhaps this is one of the ways that they collect ambient magic around them as we were informed that they are extremely magical. It would be interesting to learn how the magic is collected ambiently and perhaps have a better understanding of how we can use this to power low energy sources without the use of the Mana batteries. It would be nice to study these creatures further.
Dear Fellow Traveler; Requisitions
Designation; Aldebaran Maia
Location: Diad, city
Team: Lore, Midnight, T4RK-5, Aldebaran
Department; Requisitions
Objective:
Thaddius, the librarian of the library in Dyad needed us to retrieve 3 stolen books;
-The Life and Times of the Tetzelworm
-A Garden of Our Own
-An Orange book with a gold lettered titled
Midnight recognized some burn marks that smelled like something he called brimstone near where one of the books was supposed to be. Which led us to a tower owned by someone called Sal. While looking around the building Midnight could not get a good location of where the brimstone smell was coming from. We followed it to the banking area. I distracted one of the staff as long as I could (I believe they had a problem with their bookkeeping. 50% of each persons account withdrawn as interest each month does not make sense when they do not even own whatever they are storing). The Lore took over once we got the manager out here.
Lore lied and said that she wanted to store some precious items in the vault but wanted to make sure they were secure. Stating that we (well Midnight and T4RK-5) were security. I ducked behind T4RK-5 in order to change shape and maybe have a better look around, when Midnight went to check the vault. Once he returned we went to leave under the pretense of getting Lore's "items".
When I changed a teller named Becky saw me and she caught up with us on the way out. She asked if we were stealing and if she could get a cut. I do not understand how retrieving stolen items is stealing up I will have to ask about that distinction to another officer. While Becky, a look legged frog-like woman with very long nails, spoke strangely focusing on T4RK-5, Lore got her to agreed to tell us where Sal might keep important objects he did not want anyone to get at. It was a safe in his room, which meant getting up the building. We needed a key from Sal in order to get to something called the "pent house"? And Sal was out around town.
So all of us went and found him. He was in front of a bakery eating a massive pastry that I do not remember the name for. With some scouting as a deer-shrew I managed to find the key he held. It was on something like a... magic proof chain? Magic resistant metal seems like a problem we made need to look into.
T4RK-5 identified another key on one of the Linkertons. That seemed easier to retrieve.
So Lore talked with Sal, who asked if she was from the Celestial Sea (? must research this later), and had some other strange compliments for her as he agreed to let her join him for a movie. Midnight and T4RK-5 acting as security for her again.
With some quick thinking on Midnight's part he used magic to swipe the key off the Linkerton person and then called Lore's communicator, making a very loud noise. Something about "Boberts Casino and Spa"? T4RK-5 admitted later to that sound also feeling like it emanated from his head. He also mentioned something about needing to put up a "firewall" to stop someone from seeing through him? I beileve Lio is working on that now that the missions is over.
However after we got the key and got back into the building we had to search Sal's room. There were several things of note:
-Midnight found a cloak of Brimstone that would not fit Sal (possibly worn by our thief?)
-Lore retrieve 100 gold coins, thought Becky had asked for 200. Lore said she would "smooth things over later"
-T4RK-5 found written drafts of the construction of a train and railway from the people of Gibbet that Sal seemed to be planning to run through the forest to get to some city beyond it.
And I found the safe! There were 3 traps on it. The strangest one being that you had to be above a certain weight (assuming about Sal's size) in order to not be flung out the window when turning the key to open the door. Personally that seems like rather poor planning since plenty of creatures can exceed that weight, but since someone thought it would be... I think amusing was the word, we all sat on T4RK-5's back while he turned the key. Midnight save Lore from falling off.
Once inside the room, that almost seemed like a personal library, we began looking for the books. I believe T4RK-5 found one. Lore found a strange branch that later she mentioned had a flower with markings on it, though she did not explain further. Probably because her firefly set it alight and when she shoved the branch back into it's case it set the rest of the case, and room, on fire.
Midnight's quick thinking brought up a magical shield to keep the fire away from us but we were still trapped in the room. There were sounds of others above that clearly knew at this point that someone was down here. Lore haphazardly grabbed some more books.
Unsure how else to get out I figured jumping through glass was a bad idea so I used my magic to turn the window frame into vining moonflower and the glass fell away. I was not entirely sure what happened next however as I must have... miscalculated? The entire building turned into a massive vining plant that affected all the steel I was connected to even through the foundation. I could sens the whole structure change. Normally I can only turn something as large as the area of a standard size door in the Silver Thimble. This was not on purpose I wish to reiterate that for this report.
I do not remember much of the rest of the mission however. Lore mentioned that T4RK-5 had a "wicked canonball" and Midnight thankfully got me down out of the tower. I was entirely drained after that, at least someone hid an AP shot in my bag (I am pretty sure I know who) and Midnight was able to wake me back up once on the ground. We took the ferry back, with T4RK-5 walking along the bottom of the canal. Apparently there are several air tight seals are important machinery in that unit that helped him survive the jump, and subsequent walk, through the water.
This ends the mission report.
Of note:
Of all the books we retrieved:
Life and Times of the Tatzelworm
A Garden of Our Own
and Lore's pile:
"The Cat's Meow-steries" by Agatha Whiskers
"Hop On It: A Frog's Tale" by Kermit Greenleaf
"Salamander Shenanigans: A Slippery Situation" by Newt Likelittleguy
"Feline Fatales: A Noir Tale" by Tabitha Claws
"Tongue-Tied: The Adventures of a Talking Cat" by Cleo Pawtra
"The Frog Prince: A Love Story" by Tad Poleman
"Croak and Dagger: A Mystery" by Lily Padmore
"Fire and Brimstone: The Trials of a Salamander" by Blaze Burnham
I am still unsure if the Orange covered book survived the fire.
Signed and Dated
Aldebaran Maia
[Current missive is in the possession of officer Quet. To be dealt with by aforementioned officer]
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