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Categories: Dragon Age, Dragonriders of Pern and Stargate:SG1.
Mages of Pern Verse - Crossover Stargate SG1 Version 1 Part 1
Mouse had dropped by Anders to tell him about the two strange stone circle thing they had found in the Beyond. Anders had taken a group of Mages and Spirits and Dragonets and pulled the stone artefacts out of the Beyond. They had Jumped the artefacts to a clear area on a nice stone plinth so that they were less likely to accidently lose them in the ground as did happen on occasion while experimenting with magic.
They had examined the smaller device with curiosity. It made of a dark bronze brown metal with a solid base connected to a circular platform with two spires handles coming off one end and in the middle it had two rings, one on top of the other of similar metal divided into connected segments and with what seemed to be something carved onto them which was all around a large dull red jewel half sphere on the top. No one had the first clue what it was for but they were quite sure it was designed and they didn't want to risk it being dangerous or breakable so they hadn't yet examined it in more depth.
The much larger circle was a hollow ring also appeared to be made of a kind of grey metal. It had symbols carved on the ring and an inner ring that could move. They had noticed that the symbols on the ring seemed to correspond with the symbols on the pedestal circle. It seemed to be designed to stand upright so that is what they had done with it.
A couple of weeks after they had first discovered the two items the large one's writing bumps had started to light up blue. Everyone there had Blinked out although quite a few of them stayed nearby. Anders had not been present at the time but he had gotten the alert from Karl and Blinked in.
They watched with a mixture of curiosity and caution as seven of nodes light up blue then the circle violently expelled a kawoosh of blue energy before it settle back into the ring like a big glowing puddle. Anders blinked, "I think that it's a good thing no one was standing in front of that when it went off."
Mouse stared at the circle with fascination, "I think you're right, that would have been most unpleasant."
They might has said more but they fell silent and watch from behind the large rocks that hid them as a moving metal wheeled thing come through the glowing puddle. It rolled around, seeming to look at things and was about the size of a cart, had a weird front thing that moved almost like an arm and it was grey.
"Do you think it's alive?" Jowan asked uncertainly.
Anders tilted his head, "It doesn't feel alive." He glanced down at the black cat by his feet, "Kitty what do you think?"
The cat flicked her tail, purple eyes glowing as she regarded the strange thing, "I don't think it is alive. I feel no desire from it."
"So we have a strange circle thing that can spit glowing blue water, that not alive metal rolling things come out of and being not alive are probably made by something like dwarf technology." Nathaniel gave it an exasperated look, "Never a dull moment with Mages. Are we about to get invaded?"
"Maybe." Anders concluded, "But we shouldn't assume anything. I'm going-" he paused then rolled his eyes in annoyance before ordering, "Jowan, Kitty go and look at metal thing more closely."
Standing just behind Anders, Fenris let a little pleased smile pull at his lips. He couldn't have his mage commander running willy-nilly into danger all the time. As the God-Leader of Pern; Anders had responsibilities. Karl nodded his approval of the choice, Kitty flicked her tail and Mouse looked disappointed he wasn't getting to look at it. Nathaniel just sighed but he also looked subtlety pleased that at least this time Anders had the sense not to go running into danger while Jowan grinned.
Scooping up Kitty Jowan placed her across his shoulders and held up his arms for their Dragonets to grab into. "Oh," Anders added, "don't let them see your Dragonets." The two nodded and Jumped Between into the tree line on the other side of the clearing with a rush of cold air.
Sending their Dragonets skywards Jowan rubbed between Kitty's ears, grabbed his staff with his other hand and pushed through the branches into the clearing. The metal thing appeared to have been examining the smaller pedestal metal circle but it turned to –look?- at him when he entered.
He just looked back at for a moment seeing if it was going to do anything before he slowly approached. Stopping a few feet away from it he asked, "Hi. Don't suppose you speak Common do you?" he paused and sighed, "Yeah. Didn't think so."
He lent against his staff and stared at it, not quite sure what to do next. Kitty shifted on his shoulder and with a shrug he lifted his staff and gently poked the metal thing with the end. It didn't do anything but make a gentle thunk sound.
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On the other side of the stargate, Stargate Command looked at the images on the scene. SG-1 was ready to go through once Sam had given the all clear on the M.A.L.P's report of the planet's conditions. "No apparent signs of advanced civilization." Sam concluded just as a person stepped out of the bushes and into view of the M.A.L.P's camera.
They were dressed in a light green robe with brown boots and a bone staff in hand. They looked human with fair skin and shoulder length dark hair, across their shoulders was a draped a black cat. "Well what do you call him then?" Jack joked, "Non-advanced civilization?"
Daniel leaned closer looking at them with interest, "Their clothes seem to be rather fine, so either whatever group they come from as mastered cheap, fine clothing or they are well respected. The staff appears to be rather finely made, it could be a symbol of status. So maybe a medieval sort of society, not enough impact on the environment for us to detect them but big enough for skilled clothes making." he paused and listened when the man said something to the M.A.L.P, "I don't recognize that language." he looked surprise, "At all. Nor anything similar."
"So are we going through or not?" Jack asked.
"I don't see any reason not to." Sam affirmed.
"I wonder if they are a completely different species that appear human or if they have just not had contact with any other group of humans or gou'ald for so long that their language has become so different it isn't recognisable?" Daniel mused.
"Right, we're going!" Jack said happily then snorted in amusement as the guy poked the M.A.l.P with his staff looking after unsure as to what he was supposed to do. Jogging down the stars to the gateroom he add, "Come on let's go before our native gets bored and leaves."
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Jowan had just started to wonder if he asked a Spirit nicely they might possess the metal thing when there was movement from the puddle circle. He stepped back, automatically shifting into a defensive staff position as Kitty moved to more easily jump from him.
It seemed unneeded as four people exited the puddle.
"Anders." Jowan called with a sigh. He didn't understand a word the four were saying but they didn't seem hostile right now so he figured that Anders, the overachieving magical experimentalist and explorer, was better equipped to handle the language then him. He'd done it before; in fact he had invented it.
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Jack watched warily as a second man, staff in hand stepped from among the trees. He moved towards them casually, hopping up to sit on a large boulder a few feet away from then with his staff across his lap and something furry on his shoulder. Was that a mouse? It rather looked like it. He wondered if the first guy's cat would try to eat it.
Then the blond haired man started to sing. It was an eerily flowing and beautiful sound unlike anything he had ever heard and it was hypnotic to listen too. The song seemed to resonate through the air and then Jack realized that the first guy was leaning against a rock was wordlessly singing along. But more than that the humming seemed to come from everywhere and when he looked around there were small, jewel coloured flying lizard creatures all over the place humming along.
The blond guy had closed his eyes at some point Jack realized when they opened and locked with him. Clear bright amber gold they seemed to shimmer and change. "Greetings Travellers." Jack started as the words curled across his mind, "Our apologizes for communicating with you in this way but we do not understand the language you speak nor you ours. We believe that the rudeness of this form of mind speech uninvited would be better than misunderstanding each other while try trying to talk."
"You're telepathic?" Daniel breathed in awe.
"Yes." The blond man shrugged and Jack realized it must be him talking to them. "But only to a limited extent. It is mostly good for talking and learning, not much else."
This isn't great but I figured it was close enough to finished that I might as well post it.