Screw the Permits (RP) As Hecate and the Dryads landed in Offtopic, they saw the gargantuan black vault in the bay. “What’s that?”, asked the younger of the sisters* “If I had to guess, something to do with the Deep. Follow me.” The ship lands at a large clearing in the mountains near Insane’s house, at an active construction site. All around them, frames are moving chunks of stone, and trees to places for consuming by a swarm of construction bots organizing a frame for a skyscraper. In the middle of the nearly completed frame, is a towering pillar of blinking, glowing, technology. “I am Hecate. Well. That’s most of me right there.”, she points to the core in the frame* “I brought you out of the Infinity Vault because as I said before, you could be some of the last members of an extinct species. This is Offtopic. Despite the extreme technology, this is where you’ll be the safest. You can stay with me in an underground garden, or you can go to the city and make a living. Which reminds me. I never got your names.” The older twin tears her gaze away from the superstructure, and answers, “I am Hydrangea.” The younger sister whispers, transfixed on the glowing sight, “I am Peony.” They both speak simultaneously, “We’ll take the garden.” “Ok then. Follow my foremen here, and he’ll take you in.” He gestures to a passing frame, although this one is violet colored, and it starts walking down a stairwell near the superstructure. The twins follow the frame, and it opens a door into a domed garden, full of bioluminescent plants everywhere. Meanwhile at the top of the base, Hecate stood at the front of the skeleton of the building, waiting. “Do we have the required materials?” The purple foreman standing next to her answered, “YES MISTRESS.” “Ok then. We start now.” She raises her arms to the sky, and piles of bots rush into the material piles, pick them up, and they rise, placing pieces, and smoothing edges into an angular design.... SEVERAL HOURS LATER... As Hecate stood in front of her creation, she was astonished. Instead of the smooth, shining design she meant to create, she was met with a dark, jagged building, a dark stain on the city. “Destroy it.” “YES MISTRESS.” The building starts exploding, with charges that were placed at weak points along the structure, a crumbling pile of smashed material. SEVERAL DAYS LATER... After several more attempts, Hecate finally built the design she wanted, but it had a foreboding tone to it. After the bots melted off the frame, she decided it would work, and went in. (You can head into the underground garden, head into Hecate’s building, or just not participate lol)