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

[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!

[plied_magic]

Hopefully, we won't need to sleep here, but I get your message.

[and with a wave of her hand, anything fabric is clean]

Normally I do this by just making clothing that won't wrinkle or stain. It's more effort up front, but it means I don't need to fuss at people.

[she does like fussing at people, though]

[noarchitact]

I'm not sure where else we're meant to sleep, but just because we have basic amenities doesn't mean we have to accept them as they are. We can do better.

[ ... ] You can do that?

[ kaveh brings a hand to his chin. ] Do you think the sheep would mind if we shear them for their wool?

[plied_magic]

Normal sheep don't mind shearing, as long as you do it right as it's getting hot.

These sheep seem very passive. Blossom and Stormie excepted.

[noarchitact]

...hm. I wonder if we could shear some of the other sheep then. I don't think they'd mind.

[plied_magic]

If we do, once I get some tools, I can do all kinds of things with it. If no one finds wool too scratchy.

[noarchitact]

Beggars can't be choosers. Hopefully we can find the tools. We should probably have a look around.

[plied_magic]

I hope we're not here long enough to need them, but if we are... I find this sort of thing relaxing.

[noarchitact]

Piano Girl also said as much... but we're going to need to talk... sacrifices at some point to even see if this magic spell or whatever can send us home, but if that doesn't work, then... [ he trails off and shakes his head. ] One thing at a time I suppose.

[plied_magic]

I'm not shedding anyone else's blood for a spell.

[noarchitact]

Oh thank archons.

[plied_magic]

Archons? Sounds Tharian.

[noarchitact]

Tharian? Archons are the Gods of Teyvat, but I'm assuming none of that sounds familiar.

[plied_magic]

No. Does 'the Living Circle' and Emelan sound familiar to you?

[noarchitact]

I'm afraid not, no.

[plied_magic]

Huh. My geography is pretty good.

[noarchitact]

I think the world, er, worlds in this case might be a lot bigger than we could have ever imagined.

[plied_magic]

IT sounds like it.

Of course, this means I want to hear about more of it. If only because my siblings will ask.

[noarchitact]

How about we share a bit about our worlds when we're not worrying about sacrifices?

[plied_magic]

All right. But it's something to distract us if we can't do anything about the sacrifices.

[noarchitact]

Exactly. I'm already feeling the stress from having to make a decision like that.