[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

[avocadoatlaw]

Yeah, I sort of figured that. So what then? You wouldn't be the first person I've met here not from Earth.

[airily]

[ He doesn't want to avoid Mikleo - it's not quite that simple - but he's not sure about his welcome, even now. Zaveid still feels that sense of murder hanging around his shoulders, a dead weight that pulls him down, but he's sure that the other seraph doesn't care. Mikleo wouldn't approach him if that was on his mind, and he has to get over his own uncertainties - he has to get over himself, and he huffs a quiet laugh.

That might take a little longer than all the rest, but sure. ]

I dunno. The ladies seemed to like it kinda short...

[ It comes out as a joke, but it's obvious that he's delighted to have his natural style back, like nothing had happened at all. ]

[brainiest]

And you're going to try and make a poem out of that? [ Hermione shifts, a little more steady on her feet than she used to be, and manages to balance herself as she follows Sorey down without hesitation. ] No worries.

[brainiest]

Oh. [ Looking back out at the forest, she wrinkles her nose. ] Perhaps it'll be best if I stay away, then, just for now.

[mucked]

Aha -- well. That particular credit belongs to two very clever minds. I was there to wrangle the recruits. So to speak. Captain Rogers wasn't the only candidate put forward for the program.

[athru]

Sort-of, but there's something personal about 'fart'. He might find it a bit more... Well, more. It's what I used to call him.

[ Maybe she shouldn't be telling Tempest about all this, but... She can't see the harm in it. The more people that start teasing Charles and making he more comfortable with it the better, she thinks. The last twenty years have been so up and down for him that she wants to start making things easier and better, soothing his hurts and his wounds as much as she can.

Preening a little, Raven's lips twitch. ]

They'd better start getting used to it.

[resnipstance]

[That nets a real smile, genuine and fond.]

Good. Because I'm not in the habit of saying things I don't mean.

[airily]

[ At least this is a decent way to spend his time, and he flops back, making himself a little more comfortable. ]

Nope. What you see is what you get. Just plain ol' Zaveid.

[alwayscomeback]

[He'll got for it. Random direction is better than no direction, after all. ]

Well, I like them. We're...pretty out of the way. We've got little villages scattered about, take care of ourselves, you know? Most of the world never comes anywhere near us and we don't mind.

[He rolls his shoulders in a shrug. ]

It's a simple life, just living off the ice and sea. But it's a good life. I...really miss it.

[arcanepower]

... If people can't usually see seraphim, then what about your clothes?

[okay he's been dying to ask that one for a while]

[revengeofthemordsith]

And yet, they've done little except subject us to terrible food.

[tallasaking]

Queen Riona of Fereldan, you are a delightful friend to have. [He grinned, as he shouldered his bag, as he grabbed those sticks.]

[sylphystia]

[Dezel notes the change in Mikleo's posture and how he gets silent. He's not a conversationalist; he has no idea what to change the subject to. All he can do is sit here. Uselessly. And try not to think about how this was probably the result of his own blessing.

It's selfish to focus on his pain above everyone else's. He's learning that, and so...

... so, very cautiously, he leans over that extra inch and slips his arm around Mikleo. He keeps his eyes forward, not that it matters much, but it'll give Mikleo some illusion of privacy, probably.]

[dancingmd]

The plants themselves aren't much different from Earth in type, but they tend to be much larger than normal - and the deeper you go, the larger they get.

[dancingmd]

[She shakes her head.]

It wasn't quite like that. It was... it was as if the whole planet was alive, conscious and the plants were its defense mechanism.

[aigue]

[She'd like that kind of love, though she really isn't sure she's capable of it, let alone Monty too.]

No, but it's part of it. And for me that's particularly important, because very few people care about me and vice versa.

[witheringlotus]

[That's... a good suggestion, actually. He likes to eat squashy-type things because they're sweet, so the seeds sound pretty good.]

How long do you roast them?

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda slams his fist into a nearby giant tree... which wiggles a bit and drops an acorn two steps from Kanda's head. He doesn't seem to notice.]

I'm gonna -

[And then a squirrel the size of a horse jumps down after it, surprising Kanda enough that he goes wheeling back onto his ass. The squirrel considers both Allen and Kanda, chuk-chuks in their direction, and then goes right back up the tree.]

What the hell—!

[JESUS CHRIST he's pretty sure he just lost another six months of his life right there.]

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda stares blankly. It's that look he gets when he's trying to comprehend something and it's not quite going through.

Then he just gives up trying to care.]

... I'm not calling you anything special, all right.

[Joke's on you, Kanda, ~Dune is his special name~]

[witheringlotus]

Yeah, with the scar.

[There are apparently multiple white-haired kids here, though he hasn't met the other one.]

We're Exorcists.

[save_the_souls]

[ Allen's also torn away from the argument by the arrival of the giant squirrel. He stares at it with surprise, but not nearly as much as Kanda is showing. ]

Well, that's a big squirrel!

[save_the_souls]

Ah...you heard that?

[Allen turns a bit red in the face and has a rather sheepish expression as he rubs his head. Whoopsies. ]

Yeah, that's him! He's another Exorcist. We were teammates back in the Order.

[precedented]

[ Leto smiles as he shifts the seeds in a corner. It's a very typical Kanda response and he can't help but be endeared. ]

That's probably for the best. I wouldn't want the power to go to my head.

[axiomed]

Perhaps there's something that gives off life energy at the center of the forest.

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[nerdeology]

[how else is he supposed to deter you]

Oh, is that why you were handing out hundreds of pounds of jerky to everyone you knew? Because you were being hunted?

[uh-huh.]