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August Aftermath: Plants Solidify Sunshine

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.


If your character died during this event, please let us know if you have not already. Death penalties have been reduced for this event, but we still need to account for them!

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prettypurpleparlor: Thinking only (And I've a many curious things)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-08-23 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Muffet raises a metaphorical eyebrow.]

Of course, I have more than enough. May I ask why?
vagabone: (...knuckles)

[personal profile] vagabone 2018-08-23 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, trying to clean up all these... flowers. Nobody wants to look at more of those right now.

[It's an impossible task with a basket, let alone carrying them out one handful at a time!]
prettypurpleparlor: I have within my pantry (Table ready)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-08-28 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. Quite.

[Muffet makes an expression of distaste at the thought.]

Unfortunately, I've found that they regrow- most of them, much faster than we'd like.
vagabone: (panic!)

[personal profile] vagabone 2018-08-31 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[...Can he please have some good news for a change?]

That's--come on, why? It's a temple, it's not lying to us! [Wait... panic is creeping in.] Is the Storyteller cursed? Did they die?
prettypurpleparlor: Oh no, no (To ask me is in vain)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-09-01 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Muffet looks grim, weary.]

I don't believe they're dying, but they are affected somehow. I'm unclear on the details.
vagabone: (having second thoughts)

[personal profile] vagabone 2018-09-06 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[That makes two of him. He's too worn out to be panicky for more than a few moments.]

Are they around here someplace?
prettypurpleparlor: I have within my pantry (Table ready)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-09-08 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Not that I've seen, but I left them some food in case they stop by in the flesh.

[Priorities: Muffet has them.]
vagabone: (easy grin)

[personal profile] vagabone 2018-09-11 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He gives her half a grin, which is better than no grin at all. Her pile of food seems enormous to him. It was silly of him to worry about anyone going hungry with her around, honestly.]

How much is 'some' food to you, arañita?
prettypurpleparlor: A subtle web (I'm sure you're very welcome)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-09-11 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, just a bit of this and that...

[She smiles playfully, if faintly. It's better to have too much than not enough, right?]