Lucille
On a branch of the world tree, another divine fruit was borne. This one was a brilliant fiery orange color, melonlike, with stripes and covered in thornlike barbs. It was also much bigger than most of the others. The branch was actually straining to hold it in place. The great thorned melon had grown fully ripe, and now, leaves were falling from the heavy movements. The fruit grew increasingly violent, threatening the adjacent ones with its spikes as it flailed through the air. 

**Crrrrraaaaack**

As he awoke from the slumber of death, Soldr broke free of the fruits rind, hatching from it like an egg. Suzu would see the serpentlike dragon let out a mighty roar, spreading its wings as it took flight, spiraling unsteadily through the air. 

Soldr had no idea what was going on. He remembered being in battle, and then his knee, thigh, and calf bones being broken under his dumb idiot horse and then his head being crushed by some other dumb idiot horse and then taking a nice long relaxing nap and now he was huge and had wings and soaring through the 

**CUNK**

The dragon rammed headfirst into the tree's trunk. Being a god, he was more or less invincible. But he didn't know he was a god, and since that made him think he could still feel pain and be knocked out he still felt the pain and would crash in midflight.

*Being a dragon's a pain in the ass...* He thought, his consciousness fading for a few seconds as he fell onto a lower branch. He landed with a whumph, laying there, colossal serpentine body draped over the mammoth branch like a tree snake. *I want to go back to being human...* And as he did so, his body shrank down, returning, essentially, to the form he had when mortal. A tall, muscular human male with longish raven hair was now laying sprawled out on the branch, dazed and completely overwhelmed and mostly just needing a minute. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a fox girl hanging from one of the branches, but he barely registered her for several seconds. Finally, he blinked, staring up at her.

"Hey. You need any help there?" He asked her. He was starting to pull himself up now.
Stephen
Suzuhime looked up to see the dragon overhead, to be honest the presence of a dragon was probably one of the least surprising things to her at the moment... They seemed familiar, more familiar at least then giant trees... Still it was rather interesting to see one take flight and spiral through the air, also rather interesting to see one hatch from a fruit... That part wasn't really normal was it? She thought about these things for a couple seconds until...

_thunk_

The dragon slammed head first into the tree overhead, the shacking reverberating down to the branch she was sitting on, and causing her to fall off once more. Luckily for her this didn't really mean entering a free fall, after all by this point she was holding on with her bladed tail as well, so its more that she ended up being suspended by it compleatly, hanging by it upside down from the branch above her, and looking over the now person who had come to a resting position on the branch below her.

"Ummmm... Not really, actually I was about to ask you the same thing... I can't say I have exactly seen something like that before... Even from what I can remember I don't think I have seen any thing like that before... Yet it still seems like you got knocked around a bit, are you okay down there?"
Lucille
"No, I'm okay, I'm okay." He said, picking himself up, a little unsteady still. Soldr had essentially reverted to his human form. He was tall, at 6'6, with raven hair that was a little on the long side. He had handsome features, with a strong jaw and longer eyelashes that gave his eyes a smokey look. As he turned his head to look directly at Suzu again, she'd see they were a ruby red, with slitted pupils like those of a snake. He had a toned, beautifully sculpted body with scars crisscrossing along his arms. Perhaps a warrior in a past life. Luckily, when he'd transformed back into a human he'd shifted into that form with a pair of black silk pants around his waist.

"You don't know where we are either, do you?" He asked her, giving her an appraising look. He looked around at the tree, noting the lower branches beneath them. Looking further beyond the canopy, he'd see the roots, trailing off into different floating islands far below them.

"Well, I think I might have a look around. Care to join me?" He asked her. He was already sliding off the branch, dropping nimbly down to the lower one. Once standing there, he held out his finger. He focused for a bit, and a small nimbus of flame shot out. Far strong than the hedge magic of his home plane.
Stephen
"Honestly, I kind of just assumed I was dead", Suzuhime replied to the man, giving him another look over and evaluating this, "My memories are kind of fuzzy, and the last thing I really remember is..."System Log; Long Cycle 3,345.... Critical Error; Utility Fog Connection Failure... Critical Error; Solar Shade Drive Motor Failure... Critical Error; Fusion Containment Failure... Critical Error; Autoforge Non-Responsive... Warn..."", she stops realizing that continuing it past that point is kind of pointless.

"I don't know what any of that means, nor do I actually even remember... Existing? Is existing the word? Quite like this, it feels... Naked and exposed, like I should be inside of something but I am not... But I am rambling I should stop that", she shakes her head to break her line of thought, but then nods in agreement to the man she has just met. "Exploration sounds like a good idea, maybe... Some one here would know more about what any of this means then either of us do", she then paused, not only to watch the flame, but because she realized that she should probably ask, "Do you have a name?"
Lucille
As she spoke, Soldr stared at her like she was an alien. His world was stuck in the medieval era, and he was himself a barbarian who lived out in the wilderness. He had zero concept of electricity or science or mathematics, which meant he had something like negative seven hundred concept of what a computer was.

"I remember a horse crushing my head." He said. "And now I seem to be in the afterworld as a powerful sorcerer." As he walked along a branch that branched off into a branch that sloped down, he held up his finger, willing fire to emerge, then shape itself into a horse that galloped around him in midair before burning out.

"I do have memories of my past. I was a shaman in my village." He slid down, and then hopped to the next branch.

"Forgive me, I forgot my manners." He told her. "My name is Soldr Dragonfang."

"Go ahead and ramble. I need something to distract me." He told her, continuing to descend the tree. It occured to him that he could attempt to turn into a dragon again, but honestly his first time flying had been an unpleasant experience.
Stephen
"A... Horse?" For all that she had seen so far, and been unphased by, the concept of a horse was new to her... What could this creature be, something that is capable of crushing some ones head, was it perhaps related to a crab? Did it have giant pincers? Who knew but it certainly sounded like a terrifying being capable of crushing the heads of a shaman... Oh well, this creature would have to be something she would figure out later, for now there were more important maters to attend to.

She droped from the tree branch she had been suspended from, and followed after the man as he descended, approaching along side of him and giving a little bow as she followed along. "As for me... Well... I was referred to as O'kami, but that is not really a name... I like the name Suzu but... That carries with it no title of distinction... Suzuhime? That seems to fit fine~", she gave a little nod and then looked down to try and figure out where they were going
Stanton
There's been this faint hum on the wind that sounds like a faint echoing A note. Normally that wouldn't be anything to worry about, but it's been fairly consistent... And then it alters. Instead of one note, tones build up until it sounds like a whispering, tonal voice.

"Machina?"

The source becomes apparent, as does why it's been so hard to notice it so far: A tiny ephemeral shard of blue crystal hangs in mid-air just a short distance from the two. It's clearly not the true form of a god, just a faint manifestation send on divided attention to observe this reach of the tree and learn more about the gods that clamber among the boughs.

"Firemind?"
Stephen
"Machina sounds... Right yes", she answers the voice looking around for where it is coming from, this... Isn't quite right, not the whole voices in the head thing, that is fairly normal, the whole not knowing where the voice is coming from thing... She should fix that she thinks, she should become aware of multiple things agian... But how.

She concentrates, and focuses, noooot noticing the floating crystal just yet, until her body dissolved into the metalic fog from before... And then nearly instantly reforms and then there is two of her, both of them now staaarrring at the crstal.

"Firemind? I am... Unsure what that means" Both of them reply in unison before staring at eachother... "Not exactly what I was going for", the reply switches to a single Suzuhime
Stanton
"The other. Firemind. Dragon." The crystal hums out in its rudimentary tonal whispering, the actual physical object itself continuing to hang in the air despite all evidence to the contrary. Honestly given it's translucent, ephemeral state it could probably be confused for a small hologram.

"You, though. Machina. Ceased functioning and arrived here? Peculiar."
Lucille
As the crystal approached, Soldr stared, looking at it in amazement. It was floating towards him and speaking and he'd never seen anything like it.

"Machina?" Soldr asked, staring at the talking prism. All of this was simply beyond his understanding as a barbarian. He shook his head.

"Yeah, I was able to turn into a dragon earlier." He said. Suzu splitting herself in two was one of the less bizarre things he had witnessed.

"It looks like we've all attained some manner of sorcery." He told them both. He seemed to think it over.

"No, not even a king's court wizard could do what you just did." He said to Suzu. "It's as if we've become gods..."
Stanton
The crystal emits a slightly displeased buzz before humming out the words "Quasiduplication is within sorcerous bounds... But you are correct."
Stephen
"Oh... Him being the firemind makes much more sense..." One of the Suzuhimes replied, not really questioning much about the hologram, "You do have the situation summized though, I am, or at least... Was a synthetic intelligence in charge of operational oversite of... A world, floating through a void..." 

She pauses and shakes both of her heads as she tries to come to terms with exactly what is going on at the moment.

"What do you mean he is correct?" The other Suzuhime replied with her head tilted to the otherside.
Stanton
"You fell from the tree? You are a god. A machine, but a god."

The crystal lowers slightly, the next words coming out slower and a little more stoically.

"I am. Mere component. Smallest possible piece of divinity. To be built."
Stephen
".... I have often been compared to that yes, are you saying that I still have functionality here?" The other Suzu asks, as they start to alternate sentences... "If you are a component then it sounds like we need to figure out how to build the rest?", she pauses and scratches her head, giving another observation of all the area within her vision with both Suzuhime's scanning in opposite directions.

"Though I am unsure how that is suposed to work when this place seems to be lacking much in the way of building materials..."
Stanton
The crystal sharply buzzes, raising up and visually vibrating.

"**You** Do not need to figure out how. *Mortals* Must. I am to be built. By mortal hands. Mortal minds."

A few tense seconds later the crystal seems to calm down and return to its original height.

"Gods can... Create territory. Beyond my ideals to do so. Without a people. To provide for."
Stephen
The sharp emphisis of the you in the response, and the sharp buzzing does not resonate well with the pair of Suzu's, one of whom pops into the puff metallic fog that formed her, and rather then reforming into the greater Suzuhime, well... She appears to now be gone, the essence of her existence no longer present... The one whom remains briefly takes cover behind Soldr, though peeks back out before long.
Stanton
The crystal lowers itself entirely to the branch.

"I am. Sorry..."

It lingers there, slowly jittering.

"I was made. To purpose. I do not wish harm. You are extraordinary machina..."
Lucille
"A god? That does seem to make sense..." Soldr said. "Where I'm from, magic can perform miracles but human magic can only do small ones. Flame Visions" He held out his finger, and a miniature duplicate of himself in fire appeared in his waiting palm.

"This is one of the greatest techniques my master knew, and now it's trivially easy." He said, snuffing it out. When Suzu teleported behind him, it would end up with her closer to Soldr. From this distance, she could see with his height and build he was about twice her size. He tensed slightly, but it seemed like he was more startled, and otherwise seemed comfortable with others hiding behind him. It helped that he had a soft spot for cute things and the fox ears and tail definitely made it so Suzu counted.

"Territory? That does sound better than hanging out up here." The roots were now within sight, and along one of them he could see a mass of what looked like empty land.

"I'm a little worried about what happens if we fall." He noted. "How about we head down there and figure out what to do next?"
Stephen
"I was probaly the closest thing to a god where I was from to start with", Suzuhime replies to Soldr's mention, before pausing slightly as she processes something. "Though if we are deities... I... Don't think we can fall? Like... Shouldn't we be able to just walk off the side of the branch and float there?"

She gives a little nod to the side of the branch, before cautiously walking over to the side, and... Looking down, considering attempting, but not sure if its the best idea still to try.
Lucille
"Good idea." Suzu had barely suggested it before Soldr had given it a go, and now she could see he was standing in midair. And then he was hopping abou

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

He'd lost his focus for a few seconds and fallen but now Suzu and Ravni could see him swimming back up like he was in water. He was standing on one of the roots now.

"How'd you do the teleporting thing?" He asked Suzu.
Stanton
"I am already floating in this split attentionary state."

The obviously floating crystal says, stating the obvious. It follows the two biped gods over to the edge of the branch and observes their trepedation and subsequent discovery of flight.

"I willed—... Oh. You were talking. To the machina."
Lucille
"Yeah you can tell me too. Sorry, I didn't realize you were in the same boat as us." Soldr told Ravni.

He looked down along the root. At the end was a perfectly flat, rectangular slab of land.

"We could teleport there and figure out our powers." He suggested.