springle (spring mingle)

[finalefantasy]

WHO: you
WHERE: wherever
WHEN: afternoon into evening 61

[the spring thaw continues! how's that scent of fresh wet grass and the sounds of critters popping back up, huh?

towards evening, there's another strange smell on the breeze (ozone? oleander?) and a soft flurry of tiny dark feathers blown into the pasture and meadow.

if they happen to land on you, you may have a weird moment where you experience the perspective of some other, non-sentient creature in the area -- a squirrel scratching about in a nearby tree, for example, or a frog swimming in one of the team ponds, or one of the local songbirds stretching its wings and digging for worms.

it's harmless, and might be interesting, but it's also briefly disorienting. try not to fall on your face or into the lazy river.]

Comments

[quarantotto]

[Crouches down, folding his arms on his knees]

No, but my legs are long. I can cover a lot of ground.

[jerkalope]

How're your eyes? Some of them are pretty small and float away easily.

Aha, but if you're willing to offer help I can chase after them in that case!

[quarantotto]

My eyes are quite good, actually. I can assist.

[jerkalope]

Then thanks, tall guy.

...also, maybe related, but if you haven't touched any of them, how's your reaction time?

[quarantotto]

Also good, why?

[jerkalope]

If you touch one of them you might suddenly find a, heh, change of perspective. Nothing serious! Just a little disorienting! It doesn't bother me being so close to the ground.

[quarantotto]

I'll be ready to stop and drop then.

[jerkalope]

But not roll, you could damage them and who knows if that will do something weird!

[quarantotto]

I will be sure to ONLY stop and drop NO roll.

[jerkalope]

Great.

...I mean, obviously do it if suddenly the pasture catches fire. I haven't seen it happen but I already heard it was a threat the last time there were weird mushrooms.

[quarantotto]

The chances of fire are always non zero.

[Holds out his hands to receive bun]

What were the weird mushrooms though?

[jerkalope]

[ accepts the hand and hops forward ]

They were growing all over the place just before a bunch of people got kidnapped. Apparently they could put you in a catatonic state but some idiots here still ate them. I'm not a fan of experiments that immediately knock out the participants, at least not without some second or third trials...

[quarantotto]

[Carefully cradles the bun in both hands before standing to his full height and starting their search]

What was the point in knocking them out?

[jerkalope]

[ settling down as a soft fuzzy backseat driver ]

I heard if they weren't revived, they'd be dead for sure. Anything that kept those in the pasture on defense and unprepared for a Wolf attack sounds like a good reason if you wanted to successfully abduct a few of the flocks.

[quarantotto]

Fair enough. Did people ate them knowingly?

[Scratches behind the ears gently]

[jerkalope]

Yes, even after the warnings.

[ is the expression due to the stupidity of "me want bite" flocks or being pet like a therapy animal? probably 90% column A and 10% column B ]

[quarantotto]

I figured. I guess I just hoped for a different answer. Haa....

[jerkalope]

And yet my culinary attempts went unnoticed because it was vegetarian, pah!

[ looking over at something then pawing to the left in a "hey, what about there" gesture ]

I saw something flutter in that direction.

[quarantotto]

[Veers to the left as directed]

Seems strange for them to be picky about food in a place like this.

[jerkalope]

You'd think. And it was clearly labeled for spiciness too.

But I guess some people prefer to eat almost death consuming mushrooms instead.

[quarantotto]

And aren’t those still vegetarian anyways? Mushrooms? People really like unnecessary danger…

[jerkalope]

Technically, in that it's still not meat. But some here really have it out for vegetables. Way to neglect your health in between deadly rituals, I say...

[ leans over ]

There! There's a feather...

[quarantotto]

[Holds out the bun towards the feather]

Most of the people here don't seem like the type to pay attention to their health.

[jerkalope]

[ picks it up in his paw and stills a moment before turning his head around over their shoulders to where a bird is flying by. ]

Huh, same result!

Eh, and I suppose that's a good psychological defense when rituals have a habit of causing grievous bodily harm.

[quarantotto]

Ah, that's true. Can't hurt what they don't care about...or something like that.

Let's find another one, two isn't a big enough sample size.