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Exploration Event: Neverwere

EXPLORATION EVENT: NEVERWERE

Who: Everyone!
What: Your wildest dreams come true!
When: May 15th to May 18th
Where: Ziziphus, those still on Ensō...and Mu
Warnings: Mark as needed!

Then Know That My Life Was Just a Killer Dream
You can find most of the information you need in the OOC info post! In the meantime, feel free to use this log as a catch-all for your dream worlds, as well as detailing your efforts to free one another. Whether they're on Ziziphus or Ensō at the time of the dreams' capture, your character is free to access as many dreams as you like, as the interlocking mental landscape allows for that sort of crossing over apropos of nothing. And time, of course, is very fluid in dreams - many days, months, and years can transpire in a matter of mere minutes.

Will you fight your way free from Ziziphus's vines or Mu's thrall, or are you content to die in your sleep?

Remember to let us know if your character dies during this event!

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] May 15th: The vines make their move, ensnaring characters in ideal fantasy worlds
[ ♆ ] May 17th: The Storyteller will make contact with those they can, as well as issue information and a potential solution
[ ♆ ] May 18th: Those that have not freed themselves from the vines or from Mu will suffer a death

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[She shouldn't be aiming for the house either!! It's not the point!! Gosh Ren. Let him live a little. As much as the grim reaper can live. He's not really paying attention to what she's doing, so when he turns and sees her holding out a rock, he just. Takes it. Something was handed to him and he just took it without even asking. Kravitz stares at the rock, then stares at her, and just. Sort of. Puts it down again.

Moving on.]

The lavender, or the begonias? It does add a certain air about the whole thing.

[At least it makes it smell nice.]

I had an idea for a while to attract butterflies, but I didn't want to get too many pests.

[That was a treasure, what the heck. She worked so hard to get that out its floral prison-that whole 20 seconds she spent on the ground is now wasted. That's fine. She'll hold it for him, until he comes to his senses and if not, the rock has a comfy new home in her pocket. She's not leaving it on the ground.

But it's weird, she said purple flowers, but doesn't recognize either of those names. Definitely can't place what they might be, or which is which, not that it particularly matters. The entirety of his yard is beautiful. Maybe she can make a fort under the lavender, once she figures out which is which.]

You can ask the butterflies to not bring their friends. They would listen to you and then you could see those pretty things all the time.

[He's just sort of trying to accept that things she says aren't going to make a lot of sense. Are kids just like that? He's never been good with them. They're just... nonsensical. It's difficult.

Kravitz isn't rude enough to roll his eyes at her, so he just shrugs.]

I have no idea how I would do that. Unless you speak butterfly all of a sudden.

[And then, because he knows she'll claim to in about two seconds--]

Regardless, I don't want to be responsible for that sort of thing. Feeders and whatnot. I'm sure the ravens would just eat them anyway.

[One of which is still hopping along behind them. The other has flown up to the roof and is currently chillin' in the storm drain.]

[She quietly considers her fluency in ancient butterfly, ultimately deciding this isn't a skill she has. What a shame. How do they talk? By fluttering? She holds up her hands, hooking her thumbs together, and turning her palms towards her to make a nice little bird?? Butterfly?? It's close enough. She could win any shadow puppets contest. Her technique is flawless. She wiggles her fingers so the "wings" wave and turns to the raven behind them.

Flap flap. Wave wave. Do they understand butterfly? Probably. She waves her hands up and down, trying to make a don't eat me gesture and when she feels content the bird understands, she flips back around to say-]

They won't eat them. I asked. [She didn't???] They want more popcorn-that tastes better than butterflies. So we can find a lot of pretty bugs to put in your garden. They'll be happy here.

[He literally has no idea what is happening right now. How do children work. Is Ren a good indicator for children? He's beginning to think she's just even weirder than most. Maybe this is why Taako dotes on her so much. To mess with Kravitz specifically.]

Uh... huh. Sure.

[Let's not even get into the fact that they're spectral death ravens and probably shouldn't be eating anything, actually, but that's hardly the point. He still has a ball to find. He paces, still looking towards the ground, unsure of where it could have gone.]

Do you live around here? Is that why you're always in the area?

[While he's intensely looking for a way to get her out, she seems far more focused on the garden he's created. If they don't find the ball today, it's fine. She'll be back tomorrow. Again and again and again, until their home insurance deductible gets so high they're forced to move to another area.

Be proud. There's an intense urge building in her to grab and pull at the flowers, a strong desire to hoard them in her pockets, and she's having to resist every bit of that temptation. Mostly because he's next to her, so she leans forward to smell the different colored flowers instead. They're too pretty!! She can't resist.]

Yes, but even if we moved I would always come by.

[Don't worry. This curse will never vanish.]

I like to see you and Taako, so I would walk for a long time for that kind of thing. I'll always be 'in the area' if I do that.

[He appreciates that she's not immediately hoarding his entire garden, mostly because he's basically the hoarder of said garden. It's been a long time since something's been his before Taako came around, and while the other man isn't his, precisely, he finally has a life for him. A house, a garden, some birds, a husband. It's all he really needs.

He can't bring himself to say she's disrupting it, really, but she is a little bit. C'mon Ren, either be their kid or not, he's dying at all this back and forth.]

Well, I. I guess.

[He's not sure that answered his question, though.]

I simply-- I simply wonder why. I mean, I'm sure Taako has slipped you a sweet or two and that would probably be reason enough, but. This can't possibly be so unique.

[No one should be cursed with Ren as their child-that's terrible. But she has spent her life edging her way into theirs, for some reason, even though she must have a home somewhere else? From throwing balls at their house to feeding their pets to sneaking in to get some food because Taako makes delicious snacks-

It feels like a piece of a home she's desperately missing. That no other place on can compare to and she finds herself heeding that comforting call time and time again.

By her silence, it's apparent that it just might be that unique and like a smelly raccoon, she keeps coming back.]

It makes me happy to see you. I like it when Taako smiles and your kind heart reaches me even when your face looks like that-[Like how? Disgruntled? Annoyed? Either way, he's not smiling and she points up to it because she can't describe the expression.] That's why. I can feel it, so I always want to be here.

[Which makes sense? The words sound right, even if she can't place why, and so she doesn't question the meaning. Hopefully he gets it, but even if he doesn't, she's still gonna enjoy looking at the pretty flowers.]

[He just kind of. Blinks. Oh, that's... that's incredibly sweet. His frown is melting into a wigglier little line on his face, not really sure how to handle those words. Eventually, when he realizes he's blushing slightly, he clears his throat and looks away back into the flora.]

Well! Well, I... glad to help.

[It's then that the crow in the storm drain lets out a cackling little call almost like a laugh and gets up with a ruffle of feathers. And of course, guess where Ren's ball was. Being a bird bed. Kravitz sighs a little, because of course, and walks over to levitate enough to grab it and hold it back out to her.]

Here. It seems one of my birds was trying to play a game as well.

[Glad that cleared things up and it's probably her penchant to say Dumb Shit™ that gets her Taako's special cookies. Either way, she turns away from Kravitz to the happy bird, throwing her arms in the air to celebrate her ball's incredible return.]

Good job, good job! You did it! You won!

[She's so proud of this lil raven, gosh. Her eyes remain fixated on the victorious animal, digging into her pockets for some remaining kernels to gift it with. The levitating ball doesn't distract her in the slightest. It's nothing new-she remembers a time when he pushed leaves against his body to hide from her and-

That doesn't sound right, but the memory's vague enough to easily shake off as she tosses the bits of popcorn as high as she can, which is surprisingly high. All that pitching finally comes in handy. Nice. But she does save one piece in her palm and takes the ball from his hand, asking an extremely important question as she does so.]

Do you want to play with me until Taako says 'hello'? I'll give you popcorn if you win.

[The raven caws again as shes gifted her prize, and Kravitz gives it a look that seems to convey "don't you have something better to do". He knows that look in it's eye. His ravena are directly from his Lady, and sometimes she likes to spy on him... or take more direct action like embarassing him in front of a child. Great. Good. Wonderful.

He looks back at Ren a little helplessly, as if he knows he's not getting any more work done today, and sighs.]

Fine, I suppose. Somehow I doubt I'll have time to get anything else done today.

[He takes her by the shoulder and starts carefully leading her out of the garden.]

Let's aim away from the house, shall we? If you need it for strength, you can turn your head, not your body.

[That's right he won't. If he hadn't agreed to her terms and conditions, she would've made herself a second home in his backyard until dinner. Possibly later. It's questionable, but he saved himself the grief of shooing her out of his flowerbed at midnight.

She tosses the ball back and forth between her hands, glancing back to the house with her head and not her whole body, as he requested. See? She's listening. This is a good practice run.]

Okay, I'll do it like that. I won't hit your house this time.

[Mainly because she's clearly gotten the attention she wanted?? So that's fine and she runs a few steps ahead to pick out The Best Spot for their baseball catching session.]

[Everything he is is just limiting damage at this point, let's be real. He could do something to scare her, he supposes, but it feels pointless. She's befriended his Ravens and therefore his Lady, so he's beholden. Ugh. Why must she do this to him.]

Well... good, then.

[He keeps his pace, stride only a touch stiff. If Taako comes home to see this he'll surely laugh at him. It's endearing when it comes from Taako, though. Not like this.]

Just promise you'll go home when it gets dark.

[Why be spooky when you can be play catch when an endless source of energy? Don't be an old man.

But hey, guess what? The ball's headed right for him with no warning along with a-]

I will.

[Probably.

Until that decision needs to be made, she's going to keep tossing the ball his way, hoping Taako made some spicy cookies to fuel her walk home.]

[He is spooky!! Let him be spooky!!! But he catches the ball with a roll of his eyes, tossing it in his hand as he walks out to join her.]

Fine.

[She friggin' better or he's portaling her home.]

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