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

[arrowace]

[ EXPERIENCING FROGS YOU SAY ]

. . . sublime . . .

[wants_the_phd]

[you can experience being a frog that Azdaja is staring at very intently]

[arrowace]

[ this is the greatest form of science across all possible multiverses. The infinite order of reality is observing Itself, and behold: It is Frog. We are, all of us: Frog. ]

[arrowace]

[ comes up very close behind her silently ]

Dream

[wants_the_phd]

[You're in a library. It's warm, and beautiful, and so comfortable it feels like home.]

[As you wander through the stacks, you can see the books are arranged by topics. Even if you can't read in waking life, everything appears in perfect clarity to you here. You see books about history, technology, health and anatomy, the pasture, the flocks, etc. If there's a topic you're interested in, you might be able to find it here.]

[ooc: mine Azdaja's brain for information and/or get your IC cr checks here]

[wants_the_phd]

[Normally she's extremely good at detecting when anyone is around, but Mute outclasses her by orders of magnitude on this front. She 100% doesn't notice them, even as she slooooowly gathers up a sharpened stick that she might be able to use to stab a snack.]

[arrowace]

[ !! Oh!! Will wait patiently to Discuss Frog, until after frog has been eaten. ]

[wants_the_phd]

[She lines up her shot..... then spears at the frog!!!]

[]

[The frog saw her coming and darted into deeper water. heck.]

[arrowace]

It watches . . . the shadows.

[wants_the_phd]

[JUMPS OUT OF HER FUCKING SKIN and falls into the pond]

2/3 i decided

[wants_the_phd]

[On her hands and knees in the pond, she looks up at them..... ah.......]

[Where the FUCK did they come from!!!!!!!!!!!]

[wants_the_phd]

[wheeze.... it's fine, we are cool]


...Good tip.

...Thanks.

Re: Dream

[finalbows]

[ You'd never say no to a chance to plumb the depths of a library, any library.

The written word is pure. A speaker without audience, a voice without impatience, or obligation toward anything else, besides saying its piece, alone, for all time. To read... is a chance to shed, ever so briefly, all forms of pretense...

It's nice. You feel at ease here.

...You'd check out any library you were given a chance at, but you can't deny having your favorites.

Do tell, library. Is there a fiction section hiding somewhere in these shelves? ]

[arrowace]

[ . . .

Offers hand? ]

Re: Dream

[arrowace]

[ grasped by a sudden pique of whimsy, Mute decides to look up predatory megafauna. Variety is the spice of life, after all. ]

[wants_the_phd]

[She's already getting to her feet, and she waves her hand as her way of declining politely.]

Thanks. I'm good.

[She slogs back onto the shore and looks down at her soaked clothes. Unideal.]

They watch the shadows, you said?

Re: Dream

[wants_the_phd]

[Different flavors of fiction, in fact! Over here are things like novels and classic literature, and over there are books of fables and mythology. There's a big section of human fairy tales in particular, well-worn and full of bookmarks.]

[Where will he start?]

[arrowace]

Mm.

Easier . . . to trick them.

[ starts heading over to the side of the pond that wasn’t disturbed, assuming she will follow. ]

Re: Dream

[wants_the_phd]

[The biology section is at least 75% of the library, so they'll be spoiled for choice. Not only is the entire history of life on Earth represented here, but also the entire history of life on Pulmungt.]

[So they are free to learn about dunkleosteus, Endoceras giganteum, sea scorpions, any of the dinosaurs, sarcosuchus, quetzalcoatlus, mosasaurs, andrewsarchus, entelodonts, short-faced bears, terror birds, modern whales, and any other earth animal that might catch their eye.]

[But there's also an entire other world's worth of predators to check out if/when they're done with that.]

[wants_the_phd]

[She will, OBVIOUSLY, still eager to learn even while squelching along in boots full of frigid pond water.]

Re: Dream

[finalbows]

[ the book with the weariest spine, holding it so that it can fall open to whatever spot it seeks most naturally. ]

[strateelgic]

[Leviathan experiences the wonders of being a bird in flight for only a moment and it's THE MOST TERRIFYING THING EVER.

He clings to a tree in fear as his mind catches back up with his current grounded position.]

[featherduster]

[ Wandering out of Bluebell late afternoon, still missing his right arm.

He doesn't really know how to address a bottomless iceberg of trauma so he simply won't tbh. Deadpans to the pasture at large: ]

Anybody know where to get a free arm?

[endsjustified]

[looks up from where he’s checking over Lily’s garden beds]

Well.

Re: Dream

[wants_the_phd]

[It's an anthology of Russian folk epics and other Slavic myths. It falls open to the song of Dobrynya and the Dragon, an epic ballad of a young hero and his struggles against the dragon Gorynich. Some parts of the text are underlined, and handwritten notes in the margins point out correlations in the story with historical events in zmeu history. For example, the mentions of the anomaly at the Puchai River no doubt refers to intrare in the Pochaina River. And while it's unclear if Emperor Gorynich really did visit Earth himself during this time, these stories correspond with a period during his reign from roughly 800 AD to 1200 AD when human harvest was at its peak. There are mentions of the famous general Prince Tugarin in some of the following pages, as well.]