RUH ROH

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Everyone
WHERE: The Pasture
WHEN: Day 51, Morning

[GOOOOOD MORNING. It's still a bit chilly out, despite it being sunny, and there's still flurries here and there. All fairly normal and pleasant. Maybe you're out stretching, or collecting the morning milk delivery, or tending to your gardens and sheep. All is peaceful and quiet in the serene pasture.

Until, from the mist, something zips out. An arrow of sorts. It shoots through the air at lightning speed, its target suddenly obvious as it strikes a large landmark in the center of town--the eye of the fountain.

If you weren't awake already, the sudden painful howl from death might do the trick.

Its wail doesn't last, but the eye IS open now. . .by force? The eye seems to be being held open by strange, smokey claws. They are semi tangible, but probably you don't want to touch them.

But wait, that's not all! The ground rumbles a bit before settling? A minor quake? Who knows. But more importantly, in both the pasture within the fence and the meadow, strange mushrooms begin to pop up. Occasionally they shoot out pollen and spores, and drift through the air. They can be picked, but after a few hours, two seem to grow back in their place, so be careful with that.

DANG WONDER WHAT ALL IS GOING ON--oh hey there's Blossom? She's carrying a small basket of biscuits in her mouth along with. . .Bluebell's Shepherd Staff? wuh oh.]

Every~thing is gonna be okay~

. . .

[stares at the mushroom and the eye and]

WHAT IS HAPPENING???



[NOTES:
MUSHROOMS
If you get hit by by the spores, one of three effects are available:
-Level 1, minor effect - No outward effects but plagued with horrible, realistic nightmares to the point of preferring to try to stay awake
-Level 2, Fear Hallucinations; you suddenly see hallucinations of things you fear
-Level 3, Intense feelings of hatred for any particular person suddenly come to the surface/take over, making you prone to violence

Additionally If anyone eats, licks, or otherwise deliberately excessively inhales mushroom spores, let me know *immediately* as it will trigger something unskippable for you. ETA N/M THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LMAO

Note that these can be avoided by just saying whoops ur character didn't get close to one golly. These effects can lessen over time at your convenience but won't disappear completely until you cure them--how? That's up to yall! MAKE UP A FEAR ANTIDOTE. Ping me if your character tries something and I will yay or nay it.

There is ALSO a source of the mushrooms, but to find it, Stuff will need to happen.

THE EYE
If you try to touch the creepy mist hands, you will instantly pass out unconscious, feel zapped, or feel your heart skip a beat. Don't push your luck for now, but they CAN be removed. How again? Characters will have to make up a way ICly; though in this case a solution won't be approved til oocly after the 15th.

SOME IC INFO ABOUT MUSHROOMS

STORMY ON THE EYE

BLOSSOM AND BLUEBELL

ping me with any questions!!]

Comments

[eonsadrift]

Good.

[ Said with FULL FAITH in her. He leads the way towards the mist, in the general direction of where the arrow flew out of. ]

[adorabrawler]

[ And she will follow close behind. The closer they get toward the fence, the more she begins to lift her pipe up, as if ready to slam it into anything that dares move too close to them. ]

[eonsadrift]

[ He shines the sunflower light around to try and spot anything notable. ]

I don't see anything out of the ordinary... it must have been fired from far within the mist.

[adorabrawler]

Meaning we could be looking for a while.

[eonsadrift]

And I can't navigate us very far on my own. With the eye stuck open, it'd be dangerous to go further.

[ But he's going to stay by the fence and glare at the mist anyway. ]

[adorabrawler]

So what, we have to stand around and wait?

[eonsadrift]

I don't like it any more than you do, but we have nothing to go off of yet. We need to find some other way.

[adorabrawler]

But so far, that sounds like our only clue...

[eonsadrift]

We can go look at the fountain and see if we can figure out what they even did.

[adorabrawler]

... I guess you have a point. Would be kinda stupid to overlook the scene of the crime.

[eonsadrift]

The scene of the crime, huh...

We may as well investigate and see what we can find over there. Just stay alert, in case the entire fountain comes alive and attacks us.

[adorabrawler]

I'll break it apart of it does. C'mon.

[ and with that, she marches her way back to the fountain ]

[eonsadrift]

I guess that'd be something exciting to destroy...

[ He follows!! ]

[adorabrawler]

Could you break stone?

[eonsadrift]

Perhaps not directly, but I could trap it in a cyclone and smash it down to the ground. That would break most things.

[adorabrawler]

Yeeeah, I can't think of anything that wouldn't break to that.

[eonsadrift]

Well unfortunately, I doubt either of us will get the opportunity to break anything today.

[adorabrawler]

Blegh. Why's every stupid problem around here gotta be shrouded in mystery.

[ also: fountain. the time it took to get here definitely should've been longer but I'm ignoring that detail. ]

[eonsadrift]

Who knows. Blossom insists on keeping us in the dark, for some reason.

[ He eyes the claws around the eye. ]

...well? I know nothing about crime scene investigation. Where do we start?

[adorabrawler]

[ .............. ]

Guess it isn't going to be the same as the scene of a homicide. Uh.

[ She looks around. ]

Maybe, um... Does anything else look different to you? Besides whatever is around the eye now.

[eonsadrift]

[ he's not even going to question how she knows what investigating a homicide is like ]

Those wolf-like claws around the eye is the most obvious, but I'm unsure how close we should get to them. Even being this close feels... eerie, and I'm not typically unnerved by anything.

[adorabrawler]

Me neither, but it's kind of... I dunno. Maybe we could throw a rock at it and see what happens.

[eonsadrift]

I suppose that's good enough of a test. Would you like to do the honors?

[adorabrawler]

Let's see here...

[ She picks up a random rock off the ground, aims, and heckin throws it at the claws.

Since Cres' arrow did nothing, I can only assume this rock does absolutely nothing even harder, except bounce right off. ]

[eonsadrift]

That didn't seem to do very much... maybe its only affected by living creatures.