BLUEBELL BARN

[wooliefrand]

Who: Bluebell
Where: Bluebell Barn
When: Day 1, Post Awakening

[Making your way to your new barn, you'll find your personal meadow is peppered with blue flowers, the occasional blue brainless sheep, a small pond full of clear, fresh water, and curiously a big, blooming blueberry tree. Blueberries don't grown on trees! Don't worry about it.

When you enter your barn, you'll find it's. . .quaint.

The first thing you see is your team's name painted in blue on a wall, surrounded by a wreath of flowers. Above it is a wooden plaque with an inspirational message in the style of those Live, Laugh, Love fixtures, just. A bit hard to read.

Your eyes will be drawn to a tall crystalized bluebell sculpture below the plaque. You may feel the urge to touch it, and if not, some nearby framed instructions on the wall may give you a nudge. "Touch to regain your lost abilities!"

Unfortunately, while you may innately know how to activate them, what exactly do they do? You'll have to figure that out.

As for the rest of the barn itself, it's two stories and fairly basic. There is hay everywhere, and six extremely basic cots, three upstairs, three downstairs. If you examine them and remove the hay, each member of the team will find three outfits (+pajamas) for their use.

There is also a sign pointing the way to an attached portapotty--thankfully, it somehow opens up to a basic bathroom. There's one toilet, one very small bath, rickety shower, and sink. In the cabinet is enough soap, paper, and dental hygiene products for all.


Rustic is putting it lightly, but it seems that this is your home away from home!]

Comments

[chasseurdebeaute]

Shall I take the plunge first, then?

[Brushing his fingers over the bluebell sculpture!]

[plied_magic]

Go ahead.

[chasseurdebeaute]

[Does a little sparkle (magic)] Oho, it seems to have taken!

[plied_magic]

Let me try!

[touches the bluebell, and grins; she then touches her own clothing, and suddenly all the wrinkles and farm dirt on her dress are gone]

[chasseurdebeaute]

My! You performed quite a complicated spell with no hesitation whatsoever!

[plied_magic]

I'm a thread mage. This sort of thing comes naturally. What about you?

[chasseurdebeaute]

Oh, a thread mage? That is to say, you specialize in textiles? Fufu, I don't know that I would apply a particular title to myself.

Ah, but the thing that I was noting was that you don't seem to be concerned about blot, to use your magic so freely right away. Have you a magestone with you?

[plied_magic]

Blot? I don't know what that is.

[chasseurdebeaute]

The accumulation of negative energy that is a byproduct of using magic, a sort of opposite of magical energy. Is there no negative impact to you to use magic?

[noarchitact]

It looks like I'm surrounded by a bunch of incredibly talented individuals. That was impressive.

[plied_magic]

[this gets a grin]

Thank you. I'm not used to being around strangers, so I forget that I'm kind of showing off.

[noarchitact]

I hope you don't mind the attention. Do you think you could help me out? I didn't think we'd be staying in a... literal barn.

[plied_magic]

What do you need?

[noarchitact]

[ like her, his clothes are wrinkled and he's also covered in farm dirt. ] Nothing too crazy. Just a similar treatment... although, it might end up being for naught, because I do plan on going back out in search of, well, anything. [ he makes a motion around the barn. ] We might be expected to sleep in a barn, but I can at least try to spruce the place up a bit!

[vivace_ultimate]

[Awed!]

How do you do that?

[chasseurdebeaute]

Fufu, it's just a very simple visualization. Only for special effect, really, to see that my magic has been returned.

[vivace_ultimate]

It's real magic? Not... stage magic?

[chasseurdebeaute]

Oui! I am fortunate enough to be capable of it! I take it it isn’t common where you are from?

[vivace_ultimate]

No way! It doesn't exist.

--Well, fireworks would light up the sky or you could throw around glitter or confetti, but that's not magic. Anyone can use that.

[chasseurdebeaute]

I would argue those are magical in their own right, applied in an advantageous context?

[noarchitact]

[ a smile. ] How aesthetic.

[chasseurdebeaute]

Fufu, aesthetic appreciation is one of the greatest joys in life! I’m glad if I can embody such an ideal once in a while.

[noarchitact]

Mine too. [ he smiles. ] And while I don't have any magic to be able to do anything as dazzling as that... I do intend to try to bring a little magic of my own to this drab barn.

[chasseurdebeaute]

This barn is certainly very rustic at the moment! What do you intend to change, monsieur?

[noarchitact]

Rustic is putting it nicely. It's managed to offend every one of my five senses, so, yes, I intend to try to spruce it up... [ he takes a look around. ] I want to see if we can do a little better than the cots. And while I doubt we can find any furniture just laying around perhaps we can make some. A couple of decorations couldn't hurt either.