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[imblue_dabi_me_daddy_die]

WHO: Anyone
WHERE: Everywhere, but near the Big Fence
WHEN: Just before sunset.

[Life has been SLICING in the pasture, good shit!! It's also been getting a lot warmer. Well, it is summer(?) spring(?) there is no calendar here don't worry about it.

But there is some SIGNFICANT heat coming from a portion of the fence and--oh. oh no. Is that Patches? Is he setting the fence on--yeah he's setting the fence on fire. Is anyone surprised??

As soon as the wood burns away, mist begins pouring into the pasture, forming into foggy, wolf-like beast. It snaps up the first sheep it sees, shaking it like a ragdoll and leaving it a messy pulp before looking for bigger prey.

But that isn't the only issue. More mist is still pouring through the broken fence, but. . .it's not forming wolves. It's just creepily, quickly, spreading across the pasture.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. So anyone who had those friendship stars? They begin to jingle just as the fence breaks. Then they float into the air. . .and shoot off. They're not so fast that you can't follow them, however, and they're heading to outer meadow.

SO WHAT'S HAPPENING?

1) STARS. Wanna ignore this shit and follow your star? Do so here.

2) But for real someone should probably deal with the FENCE and WOLF before Patches lets more murderwolves in.

3) Ain't got time for either of that? Away from the nonsense! Cool! The mist is still creeping about. If you happen to inhale or walk through or otherwise come in contact with the mist, you'll experience on of two effects:
A) Prey - You are suddenly overcome with emotion and extremely clingy. You want someone to comfort you-you might cry on them. You might hug them, begging them to stay with you. You just want someone there with you.

B) Predator - What is this IRRITATION. You're fussy, you're in a sour mood, and you want to know where YOUR PEOPLE ARE. You find yourself being far more protective than normal and snapping at anyone who you deem a threat, or at anyone who doesn't want to be yours.



OR YOU JUST COMPLETELY MISS THIS, IT'S FINE. It's just one wolf! How hard can this be!]

Comments

[strateelgic]

Poison is still in the realm of the physical and not the magical - unless it's a magical poison, in which case it still might have to make physical contact. You need an enchantment that bends such barriers.

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . . Is that something you know how to do? Or do you know anyone who might be able to do such a thing?

[strateelgic]

With the right alchemical ingredients I might be able to, but I doubt I could get any of those here and I can't recall a recipe off the top of my head.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I shall ask around, I suppose. After this chaos has died down and everyone has had the chance to rest.

[strateelgic]

That would be the best way to handle it, I believe.

[heavyliesthecrown]

[Watching him for a moment, attempting to figure him out. Which he can't. Even if he doesn't really want to let go of him right now. ]

. . . Why did you protect me so fiercely, back there? I intentionally ruined your drinks the other day.

[strateelgic]

[How dare you question his possessiveness.]

I don't see why that would give me any reason to leave you to be eaten.

1/2

[heavyliesthecrown]

[QUESTIONS IT.]

. . .

You can be a little bit frightening sometimes, Pond Fiend-san. I feel at a loss so often, and I don't know what to think of you. My head ends up feeling mixed up and I don't know how to react. You endlessly distract me, to be honest.

2/2

[heavyliesthecrown]

But... in your middle, you actually have a soft spot inside, don't you.

[It isn't said as though it is a question. Regardless of what happened before. He thinks, in his own way, despite how dark it might have been, he was trying to help.]

[strateelgic]

Are you trying to make me out to be a decent person, little cat?

[heavyliesthecrown]

Well, I wouldn't go that far.

[strateelgic]

[Pond Fiend chuckles.]

I'm not a villain. [He says, completely serious.] Did you think I was heartless?

[heavyliesthecrown]

No. Nothing like that.

[strateelgic]

Oh?

[He leans his head in closer to Crescendo's]

Then enlighten me.

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ . . . ]

[ Hands shifting they lift to cup his cheeks between his fingers. The grounding contact of feeling him within his grasp right now is welcome.]

You can be dangerous, I think.

[ Simply put. He is. Even Pond Fiend must know that. To his knowledge, he has never tried to hide the fact.]

But you are complicated, too. You are loyal to the people you consider yours.

[ Like Rose. Like his brother, he thinks. ]

Even here, you speak of your boss... and friend? Fondly. You seem to respect him. And despite being away from home, you adhere to a certain standard of conduct. Otherwise, you could have retaliated when you made me that drink. But pride forbade it, didn't it? Or you are simply softer than your sometimes concerning words would convey.

. . . It is probably both.

[strateelgic]

I need to remember how much you can talk when you get going. It was foolish of me to ask such a question.

[He straightens himself out of the boy's grasp.]

I will neither confirm nor deny any of that.

[If the merman's skin had felt slightly warmer under Crescendo's fingers then it was surely his imagination.]

[heavyliesthecrown]

I can add elus-- eelusive to the list too, it seems.

[strateelgic]

I'll drop you.

[heavyliesthecrown]

You won't because I could escape back to the fray.

[strateelgic]

Not if I held you in place with my foot.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am not that short.

[ Wiggles to be set down once more. ]

[strateelgic]

[Tightens grip again!]

You wouldn't be standing, little cat.

1/2

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Eels!1!! ]

You can't just threaten to stand on people! It isn't polite.

[ He's not even a land dweller, where is the justice??]

2/2

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am not going to run away.

[strateelgic]

[...]

You'd best not.

[Setting... down...]