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[wooliefrand]

WHO: Sheep!
WHERE: Anywhere
WHEN: Evening 100

[AN ACTUAL NORMAL MINGLE to move time along. Specifically--for dreams!

But thanks to some certain Roses, your dreams might be weird tonight! Specifically you may dream of your past, or bizarrely, inexplicably, your futures. What could be, what might be, and what's for certain. Others may be dragged into those would dreams of what's to come as well.


Or you're not sleeping and you're just doing other shit. That's fine too!!

If you're outside, every so often, you may see the sky split open, and something beyond this plane showing day and night, the sun rising and setting in rapid succession, indicating time is moving far faster than it appears.

But then the sky seals back up proper so like. That ain't your problems.]

[ooc: context!]

Comments

one dream of two

[finalbows]

[ the first dream is unfair.

that's the only word he can think of for it. Zidane's sitting in an open window of a house Kuja has only ever seen as a rooftop, balancing a dagger on his pointer finger. he's older. grown, completely, and dressed in princely finery he's solidly refusing to wear the 'proper' way.

"Took you long enough to invite me, Mister 'Quetzal.' So? Do I get the grand tour?" ]

[electricflock]

[im going to push a monkey out a window]

Uncles playing with knives don’t get to meet chicks.

[don’t give babies ideas!!!]

plot catchup - morning 101

[endsjustified]

[SLIGHT TIME FAST FORWARD TO MAKE ROOM FOR A TRUE NAME QUEST LOL

but sometime midmorning on Day 101, flock members will hear a polite but insistent rapping at their barn doors! if they open up they will find the little black sheep ghost Charon favors hovering there, carrying a packet of notes. looks like Lily made good on the supplement to Red's rundown they mentioned they'd do!

the ghost will stick around until a team member who actually wants the info takes it, then do a little bow and vanish. if you wanna talk to Charon or Lily afterwards, it's right there in the note on top: just call him, or drop by their barn.]

1/2 I'll reply to myself

[wants_the_phd]

[Yes please!! yoink!!]

[She stands in the doorway, speed-reading it all. All this information, all the labor it took to compile it, gobbled up in just a moment.]

[Before the sheep has a chance to vanish:]

Just a moment--

2/2

[wants_the_phd]

[She pulls out her notebook and writes something down, tears out the page, folds it, and hands it to the ghost sheep.]

Could you deliver this to Charon for me, please?

[electricflock]

[a little while after Daffodil's received their notes—


there's a rap-rap-rap at Lily's door. left on the step is a basket of marmalade, honey-lime syrup, grapefruit-and-vanilla jam, lemon curd, and a googly-eyed Buddha's Hand with a "thank you for your hard work!" note in its 'tentacles']

Re: 2/2

[endsjustified]

[it kinda wiggles back into corporeality, takes the letter with a little bleat and nod, and drifts off with it towards Lily, sure!

what it say]

[endsjustified]

[omg

HILARIOUSLY

not too long after that there’s another scratching at Daffodil’s door]

[wants_the_phd]

If Ceo's true name is Chrysanthemum, could Blossom's name be Hydrangea?

[not long after the ghost sheep floats off, Charon's getting an actual cube call. The cube is sideways, as if perhaps Az has gone back to laying down.]

Thank you for this wealth of information. You guys really have been busy.

[electricflock]

[:V :V :V??

answers the door]

Hello?

[endsjustified]

[oops the ghost is back

it is holding a DIFFERENT covered basket

baa!]

[endsjustified]

[his cube has a little book upended on its head, like maybe he’s at a table with a pile of them]

Hello, Azdaja.

Mostly the volume is due to my own negligence; I rather let it pile up before tidying up my notes for distribution. But hopefully it comes at an opportune time for everyone.

[electricflock]

Hi again... Is this for us?

[takes the basket and peeks under the napkin]

[endsjustified]

[hey remember when he promised you lemon garlic roast pork

god DAMN that smells good. there’s some honey in there too]

[strateelgic]

[Peering over Azdaja's shoulder...]

1/2

[finalbows]

[ "Aww. Well, your house, your rules..."

Zidane flips the knife up into the air, though when he's about to catch it again, Quetzal's stopped his statue impression to snatch it away. Tries to bend it.

It's solid. "Real." Something that was rejecting this whole scene inside him abruptly quiets.

"Hey! Don't break it!" ]

[electricflock]

[FANCY MEAT!!]

The pork! Thank you! Tell Charon thank you for us, too! Will be great dinner.

[wants_the_phd]

[She catches him peeking so she just shows him the note before folding it up. It reads:]

If Ceo's true name is Chrysanthemum, could Blossom's name be Hydrangea?

[endsjustified]

[it does a happy little twirl of acknowledgement, and fades away with another agreeing bleat!]

[strateelgic]

[He's more interested in the original notes from Lily, honestly. There's a lot there and he sees the words "holy beast" many times...]

...That does seem like it could be a good educated guess.

2/2

[finalbows]

[ it's like a switch flips. Quetzal twists away on his heel, and holds the knife up high as he can. Just immediately sliding into evil big brother keep away mode, except it absolutely doesn't work because Zidane flat out pounces on him. ]

[finalbows]

[ making this a tsumtsum stack of shoulder peeking ]

[wants_the_phd]

[oh oops. her mistake. She passes him the sheaf of papers.]

My educated guesses have been very poor lately.

[wants_the_phd]

[Levi has it now, peek over his shoulder instead]

[wants_the_phd]

For me, at least. I had no idea Holy Beast relics did such a thing. That's very convenient to know.

That reduces the number of people we need to expose to risk by one, at least.