[muffled spooky scary skeletons playing in the distance]

[geonomy]

Who: You! Me! Everybody!
Broadcast: idk but we've sure got a pretty broad cast of folks eh, eh
Action: HECK YEAH PLANET MINGLE
When: 10/7 until plot update or recaptcha

It's a deep, deep forest filled to the brim with fungi, mysterious life forms, and pitch black darkness. Explore if you dare and discover all these things and more! Just don't get lost...

Comments

[faithfulwisdom]

Feeling ignored already, are we? [But Finrod complies. Because he's a complete sucker.]

Three brothers and one sister- and if that strikes you as a large family, you should speak to my cousins. They come from a family of seven sons.

[wolfehawke]

Oh, no, no no. Don't put yourself out, it's alright.

[He waves his hands in front of him to drive the point home.]

I've asked him three times over the years, each time he turned me down because of one thing or another and he was put out by the third, so finally I just told him that instead of me starting to ask every day as I wanted to, I'll just leave it up to him to ask when he's ready. I'll always be ready, anyway, though it's not really going to change anything. We still act like a married couple regardless, but it's a symbol of something to him. He's far more devout than I am.

[Wolfe rubs the back of his head, looking aside.]

I just don't want him to think I asked you to pressure him or something else ridiculous.

[nerdeology]

I don't see why chasing after Maotelus had to be a big secret, though! We'd been searching for him for ages before you joined us.

[bythewaves]

"I brought so much pain in my life - I can but try to bring a little light now."

[bythewaves]

Not quite like this. [ Maglor shakes his head ] But there was one where the sea sang clearly and the woods were green and great. I much preferred that one to some of the others that we have visited.

Were there no woods beyond your city walls?

[universal_charm]

You know the age old explorer rule - never go it alone.

_{[ He smiled at her. ]}

Hope you don't mind me tagging along.

[goldenglasses]

See, as long as they put the camera on a doughnut then it makes it much easier to swallow.

[exothermia]

[He merely shakes his head.] I don't recommend it, as an experience.

[The Forties he remembers, but he imagines from a very different perspective than Peggy.] You're right that there don't seem to be many from that time here. There was a girl on my ship for a short while who came from the middle of the war, but she's the only other one.

[collegedropout]

[Ah, shucks. He rubs the back of his neck, his smile appreciative, at least.]

You know, that's a pretty good idea, honestly.

Lot of experience with this tea?

[collegedropout]

[............ Crap.

That frown of his is plastered for all of eternity, hey.]

... What gives it away?

[mucked]

[ there is a distracting and dismaying comfort found in speaking with someone who can say the war and refer to precisely the same one that always looms in her memories. taken aback by that, she clears her throat and averts her eyes -- just for a moment. ]

What a miserable time to come from. [ peggy might have made her best career choices in the war, but she never lost sight of the horror of it all. ]

[dancingmd]

[He talks as if he is dying, she thinks, before remembering he can probably hear that. Well... if he chooses to address it, he can and if not, she'll let it be.]

I'm sure that they will. Humans are stubborn, but we can change.

[She thinks of that moment of First Contact, still not quite believing that she got to see it herself. Here were people who were survivors of the worst war in human history - it would have been completely understandable if they had reacted to the Vulcans with hostility. But they didn't, and it changed the world forever.]

[mistyday]

Misty turns to look up at him, her face a picture of earnesty.

"Oh you do, you do. More than you realize."

[mistyday]

[Ain't ever like she had much choice than to go it alone.]

I don't mind.

[bythewaves]

He smiles shyly at her.

"That you tell me so is a blessing."

[therewerefifty]

Experience with more than a few variations. [Comes from nursing your mother on her death bed, s'great fun.]

Sadly, it's hard to find herbs I recognise to make the tea I used to from home. I have ginger tea, which can help in some ways. It's relaxing, at least.

[Helps with all manner of aches and pains, but that's not really what Sam needs. If he is, in fact, being honest. Which she doubts.]

[stefanged]

[He makes a mental note to look around for all of those, but honestly? He figures the berries'll be the easiest to forage.]

Hm. I always liked blueberries.

[They'd go really well with some of his baked goods, now that he thinks about it!!]

At this point, though? I'll take whatever I can get.

[wolfehawke]

A spirit library in the middle of the desert. Are you sure this wasn't a dream in the Fade? That sounds like something that would go on there.

[The sort of place a demon who promised untold knowledge would take you when you said yes to a deal. He has to wonder if Merrill ever visited a spirit library, then. Or... well, the Fade isn't exactly that concrete. He shakes his head.]

Either way, there's always a lot of rebuilding to do after a war, but it's far better to be free and working than just dead by an enemy's hands.

[Could be worse, basically.]

[wolfehawke]

Well it varies. The average seems to be around eleven or twelve but I've heard as young as six....

[He trails off, her second statement catching up with him.]

You killed your gods?

[wolfehawke]

Oh! Well, glad I could help, then! And I think you could actually pull off long hair pretty well.

[Maybe a bit feminine, but if he kept his bangs the same and then tied it in a braid or something.]

[wolfehawke]

I can't fly.

[He grunts, pulling himself up another branch.]

There's shapeshifters that can. I would love to learn that. Then I could be a dragon or something.

[wolfehawke]

Far too big.

[Spiders are the worst.]

Half and half seems worse though if they could think like a person. At least with a spider you generally know what drives them, but people? That could be any number of things.

[alwayscomeback]

Nope, it was absolutely real. It was a giant owl, and seriously a huge jerk. Spirits in my world are a little uh...complicated, sometimes.

[All the time.]

There is, but we;re prepared to do it. And it is a lot better than being dead, or having the other side win. Who knows how many people would have died if that'd happened. It's just waiting for people to see that for themselves.

[alwayscomeback]

I'll make sure I put that to them.

[goldenglasses]

Good! Because I'm sure that will really help whoever has to eat that camera next. [He's so clever.] No need for them to thank me! Unless of course they just can't help themselves.