enchanted forest . mingle

[misconceived]

WHO Forest planet occupants!
BROADCAST N/A
ACTION Enchanted Forest / Spa Time
WHEN Upon reaching the system (Jan. 4) to leaving it (Jan. 31)

[ It's another day, another planet for the Drift Fleet to explore. Whether it be relaxing in the landing field, checking out the spa (and subsequently getting urged to enter the woods), or taking on the Enchanted Forest's game, there's enough to do for stir-crazy Fleet members.

Just remember one thing: make it look good. ]

Comments

[ladiesss]

Oh, way different. Like, there's all these planets out here, but there are also other places that seem to like, suck up people from all over the universe and stick them in a hotel or a castle or whatever. I spent forever in this big castle by the ocean, with a bunch of other people...

[she was trying to get to the point where bad things always end up happening, and that after you're there for a year or so it gets really depressing, but... that's... in itself, pretty depressing. so she kind of lets the rest of her thoughts drop.]

[hearsthesea]

So things like this have happened to you before?

[Shirley gestures around them in an attempt to indicate their general situation.]

It sounds like you've spent a long time away from home.

[ladiesss]

[she nods.] Yeah...

[...and then she sinks down even further into the water, where it's pretty much only her head above the surface. she's frowning.]

Ugh, I'm sorry. I'm such a bummer lately.

[hearsthesea]

I don't think you can be blamed for that. I worry a lot about going home, too.

[She pauses slightly there, thinking again of the potential consequences. Still not attractive.]

But I want to focus on things that will help me get back sooner. If they'll ever let us,that is.

[ladiesss]

Things that'll help us get back sooner, huh...

[she looks up at the sky...]

Does relaxing in a hot spring count? Because I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep doing that for a while.

[hearsthesea]

I think it will be all right. Or else I'm guilty of the same thing, too.

[Shirley looks up with her, smiling.]

It's good to be on the ground again.

[ladiesss]

[haaa, she smiles again. Shirley's pretty good at this.]

Me too. I get kind of freaked out when I think about how we've all just been floating up in space for... weeks. Solid ground is nice.

[hearsthesea]

For weeks? It was only a few days for me.

[She can't imagine missing all of this for weeks.]

[ladiesss]

Yeah. Everybody got sick, like, a couple of months ago? And there were stations we landed on, but mostly it was a lot of flying all month.

[she's so glad she doesn't get sea-sick. or... space-sick, really.]

[hearsthesea]

[That's...alarming.]

Were you being quarantined?

[ladiesss]

No... Although, maybe we should have been. It was weird...

[hearsthesea]

Did the sickness pass naturally?

[Still doesn't make sense, but...they had to get cured at some point, right?]

[ladiesss]

I think it cleared up at the end of the month, but some people also came up with a synthesized cure for clingy cases... The whole thing was really bizarre.

I wasn't actually sick myself, since I got here late. [she shrugs. IT WAS JUST WEIRD the whole thing was just weird.]

[hearsthesea]

It does sound bizarre. I wonder where it came from.

[Some planet? Where everyone caught the same disease from an unknown source? Hm.]