August Aftermath: Plants Solidify Sunshine

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AUGUST AFTERMATH: OVERGROWTH

Who: Everyone
What: You're back, for better or worse
When: August 19th and onward
Where: The Storyteller's Temple on Ensō, and anywhere else
Warnings: Please mark as you go!

Optimism Doesn't Change the Facts

By the end of the 17th, the last of those suffering from the Overgrowth have either pulled through or succumbed entirely. For the next two days, their bodies will decompose and the flowers will feed on their remains, flourishing into bright patches of color.

If you perished and choked on your flowery words, never fear. Come the 19th, you will be stirring awake in the Storyteller's Temple. You will be experiencing a few...side effects, as it happens, while your body readjusts. It will take something like a week for those symptoms to disperse, though the Storyteller isn't around to inform you of this.

What is around? Aside from your own freshly revived selves, there are a great deal of flowers, and all of them are sickeningly familiar. Scarlet gladiolus. Blushing dog rose. Soft yellow buttercups. Garnet-colored geraniums. Dark nodules of fly orchids. Rich violets. Periwinkle hydrangeas. Peppered yellow speckles of goldenrod. Jade green zinnias. Red spears of snapdragons. Pale begonias. Pink spangles of mountain laurel. The very flowers that killed you are now growing all over the Temple, inside and out, in rich abundance, cloying the air with their perfumed fragrance.

Don't be concerned. These ones certainly aren't going to be spreading to your flesh anytime soon.

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Comments

[forwearemany]

Acknowledged.

(They chatter, and decide not to elaborate on what saved them.)

We are pleased you continue to function as well.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[Likely they've had to admit enough things, lately. She won't pry.]

You're welcome to sit and rest here, if you like. There's more than enough room.

[She intends to wait as long as necessary.]

[forwearemany]

Acknowledged.

(They continue to sit.)

[prettypurpleparlor]

Ah- you were looking after the robot native to Umui, weren't you? May I ask how they're doing?

[She only encountered Arum-25 briefly, but that's not going to stop her from worrying over their condition. At the moment, she is made of fuss.]

[forwearemany]

They have regained some functionality.

(They worry too.)

[prettypurpleparlor]

I commend you on your efforts to help them. Please give them my best wishes on their recovery, when you next visit them.

[Sometimes you have to fuss by messenger.]

[forwearemany]

(It is perhaps surprising that neither Muffet nor anyone else has debated the merits of repairing a sapient robot beceuse they might be dangerous.)

Acknowledged.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Thank you, dearie.

[Anyone can be dangerous, if they choose to be. Muffet herself is far from harmless if properly motivated to fight, and is well aware of it. The important part is that, if they're a person, they can also choose not to be.]

[forwearemany]

(In Legion's universe, personhood of synths is also a subject of debate. One of the primary reasons that, despite not being suited to long term survival in this environ, they're still glad to be here.)

You are welcome.