Re: Spawnpoint 2
Arjun jumps to the pink sphere first.
As he lands, he feels a strange sensation below him...
Looking down. The surface of this sphere is strangely... fuzzy?
Instantly, in fact, the color and texture remind him of cotton candy!
Also, he is about ankle deep in this... but, as he shifts his weight after landing, he finds the ground sort of... follows him up? as he releases pressure on it...
Weirdly, the parts of the ground touching his ankles are extremely soft! But... he can stand on the ground below him? He even glances down but does not find a layer beneath the pink fuzz, like the main disc had of soil and then steel...
An idea comes unbidden to his head then;
Non-newtonian fluids.
He remembers some sort of experiment involving them in elementary school science class, and indeed... this seems to be the case - well, except for the fact this is a solid acting this way, not a liquid...
As he lifts one foot, he sees that the ground rises mostly back into place, though it is a little deformed, and actually quite dirt from stepping on it...
What a strange feeling... sort of... dreamy? Kind of like a bouncy castle in that it's totally novel. The actor's mood is somehow even lifted back to pre-Goddess divergence levels
As Emily lands, she focuses all her senses around her, and comes to the same conclusions as Ajrun had (except the phrase 'non-newtonian' doesn't come to your mind, but instead you are better able to describe it in layman's terms than him, as "The more pressure you apply, the denser it seems to become")
However, she also notices things which he did not:
Namely, a very, very faint scent of extreme sweetness. Meaning, the actual potency of the smell is very little, but the level of 'sweetness' in the light scent is through the roof.
After a moment, she also notices that this pink fuzz seems to insulate heat very well, as her toes are already a little bit warm just from standing still and being roughly covered.
She is also able to make out more of the damage than Arjun could, and notices that many of the... strands of fiber are either bent at angles or broken. They are extremely thin like hairs, so even Emily has to squint to be able to make this out.
The last thing she sees is that some of these things are indeed dissolving when they make contact with whatever remnants of liquids may be on their feet after their exploration of various terrains and rupturing of the innards of alien creatures.
It is extremely similar to cotton candy, but actually much more dense in the first place... Perhaps similar to marshmallow in density? No, it's not quite so airy... probably more than marshmallow, but less than 'medium' cake (if chiffon is light cale and poundcake is heavy cake).
Emily takes a moment to realize her face is a little red and her heart is beating quickly. She realizes she is in a very positive mood, at the moment. She feels happy here.
Finally, Jerzy follows and gets a bit of vertigo... which then evolves into a light-headed feeling that is not unpleasant but maybe a bit too dizzying and distracting to call purely pleasant.
For a moment too, he could swear he caught a whiff of the smell of Kinga... no, maybe he is just imagining things after returning from a psychic dive into his own memories - which were mostly vague and withered, given that they only accumulated to about 10 seconds of experience.
Well, he has been forced to learn a lot of stuff real quickly, and he also may be a little shell shocked from this... situation... so, he isn't really worried that he is suddenly developing memory issues or anything.