[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...

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[monolike]

No that's perfect. That's all the stuff he hates about it.

[brainiest]

[ .... Uh. ]

So what can you write about?

[monolike]

Well, he'd probably like something that's not so obvious...something that's like, really vague? Where you're talking about something but as a representation of something else. Not a metaphor...

[brainiest]

[ She frowns, considering for a moment. ]

Well, what sort of things does he like? Generally?

[monolike]

With the exception of romance novels, pretty much everything I like. So archaeology, he likes researching and mapping out genealogy, sometimes paleontology but we don't get a lot of chances for that. Anthropology, history in general...oop. The ground slopes down here, be careful. [Sorey grabs onto a branch to help himself slip down a leaf-strewn decline.]

[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.

[monolike]

I'd like to! Ideally, he'd like the poem too. [Laughs and scratches his nose.] I've given up on the epic poetry saga if my journey, but I'd still like to write something about him. He'll be embarrassed, but if I get it right he'll love it.

[brainiest]

Hm... Well, I'm not sure how to help with that. I might be able to offer words, but - I don't know anything about him, do I?

[monolike]

Oh, no no no! No no, sorry, I'm not asking you to, like, write it with me or anything. Just to- oh wow, do you see that?!

[Sorey pulls himself up onto a fallen tree trunk, side-stepping the somewhat larger-than-normal clusters of fungi before crouching down near a particularly unusual growth and pulling out his notebook.] I've never seen mushrooms like this. This is huge! Look it's coming out the side.

[brainiest]

I wouldn't mind helping, if I could, even if it's just word suggestions - [ But her attention follows Sorey's, and she moves along to follow him, dropping down to settle at his side.

It's enough to make her grin, her eyes darting back to her companion. ] I really need to tell you about some of the plants from my world.

[monolike]

I'd love to hear about them. [Sorey finishes off a rough sketch and tucks his pencil into his notebook.] Are they pretty different from what you're seeing here? Or more or less the same?

[brainiest]

Well, we had some that could trap you - and the more you wiggled the more it squeezed you. Then there were Mandrakes, and their scream could knock you out...

[monolike]

...plants, right? You're talking about plants. Normal, grow-in-the-ground plants.

[brainiest]

... Yes? [ Hermione just smiles. ] I was trapped by Devil's Snare, once, and we had to plot Mandrakes in school.

[monolike]

You had to repot screaming plants at school? [Sorey's never been to school so he's not exactly an expert on what school is like, but dang that sounds like a badass school.] What happened with the Devil's Snare? That's a cool name, by the way. Appropriate, I'm guessing.

[brainiest]

How else were we going to learn about them? [ Hermione hadn't minded the Mandrakes too much. ] Oh, I fell into it in my first year. I was the only one who remembered the rhyme. 'Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare, it likes the dark and damp.'

[monolike]

Oh, a remembrance rhyme! I use those too. [Never been to school though.] Hermione, you know, I've never been to school before but yours sounds pretty hardcore. Do they make sure you know how to fight these dangerous plants because you're expected to do it later on?

[brainiest]

Um, no, not really? We were supposed to learn about them to expand our knowledge and gain a good education - we didn't necessarily have to fight them. I was just... A unique case.