Mingle: For a limited time only...

[hearsthesea]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Anywhere on the hub
When: Days 134-139
Open/Closed: Open mingle goooo!

[Copper, lizards, and vines - oh my! With the recent installation of 9S and co.'s scanning equipment and the also recent, significantly wetter rainstorms there's quite a lot to check out on the island right now. Plus, the monitor robot still needs a name. You're not going to leave them nameless forever, are you?

Too bad Genette's put out word that everyone's about to be moving location soon. That means these are the last days the coven has for a little while to get everything in order, whether it's to take things to the next destination or to leave them behind. Get your bags packed and your huts cleaned, everyone!]

Comments

[soulcomet]

[she doesn't answer immediately, partly because she is too focused on keeping the orb together, and partly because she's not. entirely sure what to do next. she has no idea where they'll hit the Eltos pendant's limits, and she's never really tried letting someone else handle the spell in her place before.]

[hmm.]

... Try seeing if you can use it to heal your hand? [the spell's already been cast, all she's doing is holding it in place — actually using it is (literally) in Dirk's hands now.]

[splinten]

[ok but you realize his effort for trying to do this just involves him. squishing it between his hands.]

[soulcomet]

[... so, he's sculpting it? is he trying to turn healing into some sort of avant-garde art form?]

[this is not what she was expecting, and Madoka is just going to watch, fascinated. the spell will activate and burst into its usual warm, healing light in a few minutes either way, so he probably can't mess it up if he decides to make a healing horse or something.]

[splinten]

[He was trying to mush the magic onto his hand to heal it. Apparently this just mushes it.]

How do I activate it.

[...]

Can I make it into a sculpture?

[soulcomet]

[this is so weird, and now she really has no idea how it could ever be used practically. at least she doesn't have to worry about losing the spell if it's dropped? it seems obnoxiously durable.]

... Go for it.

[splinten]

[yeah it's going to be a horse now]

[soulcomet]

[it's absolutely majestic.]

What's its name?

[splinten]

The Neighsayer.

It's my fursona.

[soulcomet]

A ... What exactly is a fursona?

[splinten]

It's a 'furry persona,' or basically a projection of yourself as some kind of anthropomorphic human. It's for furries.

[soulcomet]

Oh...

[she has no idea what a furry is, other than Dirk apparently is one and also some sort of horse? but more important questions first:]

So, it could be any animal? [like a cat?]

[splinten]

Yes. Your imagination is the limit on your fursona.

[The payoff here is he wants Madoka to innocently ask Jade about her fursona.]

[soulcomet]

[those are some serious shenanigans he's masterminding there.]

[and now Madoka is picturing herself as a cat person.]

That sounds sort of cute, actually.

[splinten]

[truly an archmanipulator]

It sounds to me like you have a fursona in mind already.

[soulcomet]

[that would be an affurmative.]

Ah, maybe! I don't know ... I'm not sure I'd make a very cute cat person.

[splinten]

You won't know until you try to sketch it out.

[soulcomet]

[she finds that incredibly encouraging, judging by how big she smiles. a kitty fursona is a thing that's now happening.]

You'll help me name her, right? You always come up with the best names.

[splinten]

Of course. But we can't name a thing until you draw it. Everyone knows that things don't get named until after they've been around for a while.

[soulcomet]

[sadly, it's unlikely that either of them have thirteen years to wait to name her fursona.]

Okay! That'll be the first thing I draw when we get back.

[and just like that, and much like a firework, The Neighsayer pops into the same old bright, but familiar, healing light. it is a majestic display, but not nearly as majestic as he — rip, little magic horse.]

[splinten]

Badass. I'm lookin' forward to it.

[Well look at that.]

Thanks. This should help increase the versatility nicely.

[soulcomet]

Well, it was neat looking, if anything.

But you've been a big help, Dirk. Thank you. [she's learned way more about lizards, furries and her own healing magic today than she could have imagined.]