Sisyphus Happy
Elder Member
Health: Healthy
| Toughness: Background Ability (10) + Armor (1) [11] | Spell Power: Background Ability (14) + Knowledge (4) + Equipment (1) [19] |Manna: Background Ability (4) + Knowledge (6) + Spellslinger (4) [6/14]
Condition: 1 | Roleplay Points: 1
Χάρων
| Toughness: Background Ability (10) + Armor (1) [11] | Spell Power: Background Ability (14) + Knowledge (4) + Equipment (1) [19] |Manna: Background Ability (4) + Knowledge (6) + Spellslinger (4) [6/14]
Condition: 1 | Roleplay Points: 1
Χάρων
Sound filling the room prompted him to wince. Clearly averse to the noise, he craned his neck to peer toward the machine, hoping clearly that the great roaring was some product of having been jostled. Light began coming from it, some dust streamed from the ceiling into the shafts of light peeking in, his tail twitched nervously. Movement from Isa drew his gaze suddenly, his pupils dilated to nothing but slits. They followed the motion of Isa's hands when he invited more racket with a few gentle touches. A keening screech and groan emanated from the walls. Charon winced visibly when the pipes groaned and sighed to life, shuddering violently back and forth against the walls, knocking against stone and each other while the initial kick of the machine's blood circulating once again evened itself out. Once the pipes joined in on the cacophonous jungle of noise, Charon placed his hands to his ears, a grumpy expression on his face. Many days of still water and gentle wind on the many rivers slithering through the land atrophied his tolerance for loud noise. Though muffled, he could hear Isa's voice filtering through his hands in a distorted way.
"Might I try to sift through the information once you are quite finished?" he shouted over the roaring of the machine and shuddering and groaning of pipes, his voice cracking feebly. His green eyes shone in the weak streaming light at the tome, the reptilian pupils dilating. He wouldn't look Isa in the eyes with that grumpy look on his face and, if Isa looked closely, he would see just a tiny drip of saliva quivering its way out of the corner of his mouth, to accompany the heavy breathing. Breaking his gaze from the reference book, though with some difficulty, he began casting his gaze around the room, looking with concern toward the pipes. With the destruction that occurred just hours before, he would have been floored if the pipes did not suffer some kind of catastrophic damage. Good design would, in his mind, dictate that the machine could run with some fraction of its cooling system rendered defunct. However, turning bodily around to face the warm glow of the engine behind him, he watched carefully, nervously even, his tail draped over the ground and laying now to his front.