Hijinks Mingle

[potentite]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Anywhere around the hub!
When: Days 103-105
Open/Closed: Open mingle!
Notes: See this post for details on the moon prompt and this one for the telepathy/dream/spirit prompts!



[A | Flower Gleam and Glow]
[The nearby moon is still passing close to the hub island, meaning the effects are still in play. Perhaps now is the time to stop and smell the large lit up sparkling moonflowers that have bloomed? Or be annoyed by the mosquito-like insects that came with them.

Alternatively, the deer seem to draw some sort of energy from the moon's light. Given their size, at least their sudden aggression and proximity to the base camp isn't the worst thing in the world but a kick would still break a rib or other bone so be careful! Possibly help each other deal with these cute but troublesome fauna.]



[B | Eavesdropping]
[For some reason, the telepathy will suddenly get rather wonky. Characters won't know why it's happening, though of course no doubt there will be ponderings, but it means characters won't be in control of their ability to broadcast — or more specifically, not broadcast — their thoughts. Time to find out secrets of an embarrassing nature. Or maybe something sadder is going on in your character's head.

If this wasn't bad enough, the area around the signet might experience burning or tingling. Just try to keep a lid on your brain for the day and distract yourself from any annoying pain.]



[C | Talking In Your Sleep]
[Or maybe your character just doesn't have the most interesting thoughts. Maybe they're busy thinking about pie instead of their upsetting childhood. That's fair. Pie is great.

But surely sometimes it haunts their dreams. With the telepathy running amuck, it's no wonder dreams and nightmares are leaking through, too. Of course, it doesn't have to be an accident. Feel free to grab a friend and share a fanciful dreamscape together on purpose! But for those nuts that are tougher to crack, accidents can and will happen.]



[D | Who You Gonna Call]
[Last but not least, as Friday rolls around, there seems to be something odd going on with the island. If your character is inclined towards the spiritual or supernatural, they'll no doubt notice the strange heavy thickness hanging around. There are whispers in the air and all of new energy just feels solemn. Might be good to give people a heads up and keep an eye on it.]

Comments

[wingfic]

[The gangly teenage girl, rather. Unfortunately, Tara-Fay isn't so great with philosophical questions, and she doesn't have the experience of failing someone--or of being betrayed--to fall back on. Flynn probably would have done better with one of her teenage traveling companions.

She's also not the type to admit she's out of her depth, though.]

Maybe you should stop asking yourself weird questions and go on with your life, then.

[thatdamnknight]

[so blunt, but a bluntness that ends up making him smile lightly. get on with his life, huh?]

You make it sound so easy.

[maybe it is, in a way. both so easy and very difficult at the same time.]

But I can't go on with my life until I figure this out. If I don't then I may end up failing again.

[wingfic]

[She's not sure how to respond to that: she's always sort of just done what she wanted, and damn the consequences, and for the most part it's turned out well. Her town saved, her friend alive if dragon-y, enemies thwarted.

Worrying about ethics and right and wrong, is more, well . . . .]

You sound like Tristan.

[thatdamnknight]

[flynn tilts his head curiously.]

Tristan?

[the name isn't a familiar one. is that a friend of hers maybe?]

[wingfic]

He's always been obsessed with doing the right thing, and how we can't just kill a guy who tried to kill us ten minutes ago, or how we have to go and save the Tsar's men even though the Tsar's men hate us. And he cries about things.

[thatdamnknight]

That does sound similar to me, though I can't say I'm much of a crier.

[not that it doesn't happen, but few things actively make him cry. getting angry and shouting is more his thing.]

My stance on doing the right thing and killing someone is the same, however.

[wingfic]

[She looks skeptical at that, as though she expects him to burst into tears at any moment.]

He was trying to kill us! And Tristan just wanted to let him go. [A pause.] Uh--well, that's not the point. The point is, what do you want me to do about it?

[thatdamnknight]

Imprisonment and standing trial for attempted murder would've been my preferred course of action, for the record.

[releasing someone like that is too softhearted even for flynn's taste. doing the right thing means doing the lawful right thing. ...or well, he'd like to think that but is having some difficulty figuring out whether to do certain lawful things back home.

which segues into her question and leads to flynn slumping his shoulders.]

...Then again, maybe I'd have done the same thing as Tristan.

[switch mystery guy with yuri and replace attempted murder with a successful one and... his expression grows considerably more forlorn at the thought.]

And I suppose I thought that talking things out with someone here could help me figure out what I should do.

[wingfic]

Has anyone ever told you that you're really weird?

[thatdamnknight]

[that comment ends up making him laugh.]

Yeah, I've been told that before. [multiple people saying it must make it true.] Am I really that weird?

[wingfic]

Yes.

[She doesn't know what to do with his suggestions--the presumption of a fair trial is a foreign thing to her, and she has to shut her mouth to keep from arguing further. They were in the middle of a fairy kingdom! How were they supposed to imprison him?

But she doesn't really want to start anything right now.]

If you want to talk, then--talk, I guess.

[thatdamnknight]

[so blunt. but flynn won't pass up the offer to talk if she's okay with him doing so.]

Like I said, I just don't know what to do next. [he sighs.] I've screwed up so many times already so I keep worrying that I'll screw up again and that someone dear to me will end up suffering as a result.

[whether the suffering be like estellise when she was kidnapped or like yuri when he dirtied his hands, he's worried his failures will be what makes those unpleasant events occur again.]

[wingfic]

[Part of her wants to say, "Well, you could start with not talking to any dead king ghosts," but he wouldn't get the joke. She almost regrets asking: she's not good with moral self-questioning.]

What did you do that screwed things up before?

[thatdamnknight]

I put my faith into the leader-- [he pauses before correcting himself.] ...the former leader of the knights. Even when I doubted the orders he gave, I didn't question them and executed them as told. Numerous people suffered as a result, dear friends of mine included.

[he screwed up and blames himself entirely for everything that transpired. which is fair. had he not been the model obedient knight then surely things would've turned out differently than they had!]

[wingfic]

[This is a foreign concept to Tara-Fay, who has never put her trust in anyone. It's sort of like Tristan, again, she guesses, doing . . . whatever he was doing with King Alexandre without stopping to consider whether Alexandre might be bad news.]

Okay, so . . . have you tried not doing that?

[She doesn't clarify what exactly she means by that.]

[thatdamnknight]

[oh that... wait, huh? what a suggestion, if one that receives an immediate and confused headtilt. since she fails to clarify, flynn'll doesn't waste a second in asking her to do precisely that.]

Excuse me?

[wingfic]

[She makes a face: apparently she doesn't like being asked to clarify herself.]

You know. Have you tried . . . not listening to crazy people?

[She doesn't know if the former leader of the knights was crazy, but if he's like Alexandre it's a good bet.]

[thatdamnknight]

I don't plan on doing so now, but I also didn't realize I was doing it then.

[it's not as though he planned on helping out the bad guy. it just sort of happened without him figuring out the truth until it was too late.]

Alexei was initially the ideal leader. He was a good, just man. None of us could've foreseen his true aspirations.

[wingfic]

No, that's what I mean.

[It looks like that's all she's going to say for a minute, but then she continues,]

You can't just do what someone else wants because they're "the ideal leader" or whatever.

[thatdamnknight]

[oh. that... flynn remains silent as he processes that.]

Even if they seem perfect, I should still use my own head, huh? [a good suggestion.] Yeah, I think I can try doing that.