*smiles* "Yes, sort of.  I think you will like it." he takes flight and takes her to the valley.  "Take a look at this valley.  It will make a nice home.  Sadly, I am not good at creating.  But I can see its potential."

"Oh ! did you want my help ? I am good at creating." Xan smiled and looked all around. She admired all the new things to see here in the valley.

"I think this would be a nice home for you."

*nods* "Yes, I think I would like your help very much." *smiles* he kneels down to look her in the eyes, he rests his hands on the side of her head and leans forward so that they foreheads touch and he sends her his vision of the castle in the mountainside overlooking the waterfall.

Similar to this:

"Ha ha ha we bonked heads." She smiles then sees the image, "Oh that is pretty, can I have someplace to live in it ? I can create a youthful castle, or young workers to build the castle, or give you a seed that will grow into your castle. What would you like me to try ?" She looked happy to help out.
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*smiles* "Yes, you can have a place to stay and a play room within." he sits back "Workers would probably be best, as a seed grows, it too will eventually fade away."

Xan bobs her head.

She focuses and call up a young crew of many, many workers to help construct the castle.
Youthful not infants.



11:56, Today: Xan rolled 7 using 2d6+2.  Create youthful Castle Construction Crew.
I will take a -1 to next roll ?

Xan pouts, "Awwww I could have done better."

Pats her on the head, "Better than my attempt" *smiles* "We will get there."

Xan looks up smiling happily, "You have a positive attitude !"
Like spring eternal Xan put on a happy face.

She waves at the youthful crew she had called up and says, "Hello !"

*smiles* "I try." as he watches her interact.

AnBas gives power to Xan, and he does such a good job, he doesn't really lose any power himself.

(Xan gets an extra token, and AnBas does not lose one.)

Xan creates some helpers to build a castle for AnBas... They're all about 6 feet tall, and they're basically more Mountain Giants... except they seem more ready to take orders. They line up in front of Xan, ready to be told what to do.

Except that they keep getting distracted by clouds and leaves and squirrels and things. Every few seconds one of them will sit down, or run off, and the one right in front of Xan, who's a bit thinner than the others, will sort of roar at them, and then they'll hurry to get back in line and wait for orders.

Xan was very tolerant of the mountain giants getting distracted.
She finally spoke with the thin one and thanked him for helping to wrangle the others to work on the castle. For a while she simply sits on a rock watching the castle get constructed.

"Good work everyone !"

*smiles* Happy for the company and for someone who does not fear what he is. "May I join you and watch?" he asks the small bundle of energy that is Xan.

It's too soon to say if this is true for all mountain giants, but the helpers that Xan created have the power to shape stone, molding it like clay to their will.

...On the other hand, the workers are still easily distracted... and sometimes they argue with each other over design choices... And sometimes they just start eating leftover bits of the rocks they break off... The thin one is too busy stomping around roaring at them to keep them on-task to get much work done himself.

But... it's getting done... And the results, as they come into being, look very good. It's just getting done... slowly.

(Xan, name the thin young mountain giant.)

Xan looked to the thin one, "I shall name you, Humphrey !" She gave a wide smile and hoped he was happy with the name.

She said, "Your doing a good job, all of you !"

*smiles* as he watches the little one as she finds such joy in simple things.  Meanwhile, his shadows are returning the energy of the living things have have expired, keeping the balance even as he enjoys his time with Xan.

Xan walks back to AnBas, "They will get your castle built, it will just take some time. So what should we do now ?" She looks all around then back to AnBas.

*smiles* "Time is something all of us have right now.  So I am not concerned." he looks down at Xan and gives her a gentle pat. "What would you like to do?  We can fly around some more and see what else we find." he asks her with a gentle serene tone.
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"That sounds good. We can see what the others are up to !"

She starts to flap rising up to join AnBas.

"I like our rock people, I hope they like this beautiful world."

*chuckles* "Me too, little one, me too." he offers her his hand as they fly.  He is careful never to go to fast for her to keep. up. They fly around looking for the next thing to discover.

"Hey, I sense another god, down there."

She points at a lovely waterfall. Lush greenery down below.

"Can we see who is there AnBas ?"

*nods* "Certainly little one." he guides them down there, but the hint of a presence that he felt when Xan pointed it out vanished like the wind on cool autumn day.  As they land and look around "I no longer sense a presence." *smiles* "Well, it seems they are not ready to play yet.  Give it time and I am sure we will run into them when it they are ready." gives her a pat on the head.

"Well, I am learning how to do things. It is fun. I guess I need to sense better to find people to play with."

Looking all around, "Maybe they don't want to play with me." She held a hand to her mouth and her eyes got wide.

"Or maybe they are playing hide and seek !" She bounced happily.

Noric was, of course, aware of what was going on regarding the creation of the Mountain Giants and the home for AnBas, since each involved rock and stone (though he wasn't exactly aware of whom AnBas was).

The Mountain Giants interested Noric greatly.

Honestly, Noric was a little bored.

He wanted his own intelligent beings down in tunnels and caverns.

(10:18, Today: Noric rolled 10 using 2d6+2 ((3,5)).)

It went well! Noric created the Arys Tal, the crystal people.

https://i.imgur.com/lOTj6wS.jpeg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/70/e...077cd86d5737aca6.jpg

https://64.media.tumblr.com/d2...fAR1rczerdo1_500.jpg

They "ate" by absorbing select other minerals, and two or more individuals could create children by mixing growing crystals between them (it involved a lot of standing or sitting still at first, but Arys Tal were very good at that).

Noric sat down amongst them and began talking to them, hoping that they would eventually learn to speak...

In rolls a cloud, a cold front, as if the heavens decided to skim along the surface of the earth: and so they did, because here’s Lyric lounging on their little cloud, casting a shadow on the earth because they’re hovering just above (don’t want to touch down, now, do they?). They were staying aloof and out of the way, you see, but something made them want to look at their brother, and so here they are.

They know he's here. Down. Dumb rocks, and so weather wears...

Lyric’s cloud-curly is a tarnished silver, the color of a stormfront, drifting into insubtantial whorls. Lyric crowned with lightning and they wear a collar of stars. This is the beginning, or near enough the beginning, so they’ve got a youthful, regal aspect.

So here is a cave, and the wind goes whisper-whisper through it, c'mon out, Noric, c'mon out!

(Noric, if I need to roll Tell for this, I give you full permission to roll for me- I'm at work so not really able to check things too frequently)
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