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[rootandbranch]

Who: Anyone
Where: Anywhere
When: Day 41
Open/Closed: Open! Geir will tag responses to B only, but feel free to use any or all of these prompts for your own shenanigans ☆


A (the rain in Spain falls mainly on the...)

[you know that the strange seawater rainstorm at the festival two days ago flooded out the marketplace and part of the city. the question is, how far did that rain fall over the hard, sandy soil that surrounds the city of Aimintas? what kind of erosion happened? perhaps you have a hankering to go out and see the effect that the water had on the crags outside the city, or the humid plains covered with native plants. there are four directions to explore, north, south, east, and west: which way will you go and how will you get there? fliers and adventurers, take notice!]


B (how does your garden grow?)

[Geir, at least, is more worried about the plants in the farmed area. he doesn't know much about plants, but he has a vague idea that sowing fields with salt is something one does to one's enemies. since these plants are irrigated with freshwater, more salt rain is not likely to go well for them.

right now he's glaring at a small plot he's dug out out with his talons. he's seeded some of the bark from the strange shrubby filtration plant into it, trying to check if that will help the soil deal with the salt water, but he's run into a problem: there are no plants there yet.]

--can you plant seeds? My claws aren't small enough.


C (after the storm)

[the festival aside, there was a lot of damage to the Palai city -- like, a lot. so many bloody fights happened in the streets, so many powers got deployed, so many giant fish landed on buildings... the damage is considerable, and now that they've buried their dead and celebrated their victories, the Palai who aren't making weapons are out and about repairing their city instead. any characters who show an inclination to help are promptly given piles of bricks and mortar and wooden planks, though they might want to ask each other or the Palai for help and direction to repair things...]


D (rain rain go away)

[there are a lot of different reasons to go swimming in the strange overhead ocean right now. maybe you're trying to find out why the rain fell from it a couple of days ago, or maybe you're checking to see what the frozen Uvi fortress looks like. maybe you even want to go visit the strange island above the waves again -- who knows what there is to find?

or maybe you just want to go wrestle sharks in there. go wrestle those sharks, no one's judging.]


E (free fall)

[come up with your own prompt and run with it!]


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Comments

[rootbound]

Am I really on the same level, though...? I just...don't like fights much, too, so of course I'd go for the actions that would minimize them. That's not really kind either, just. Convenient?

[rootandbranch]

The first thing you said was "that's nasty!" Not "that's not convenient." It's like how you always talk about your magic like it's nothing. Don't you always think that if you do it, it's not much, Vern?

[he starts a lazy spiral out to the edges of the island.]

[rootbound]

[he's quiet for a while, watching the ground rush by below them]

...I just think...if I actually cared enough about it for it to mean that much, I'd be more inclined to do something about it too, that's all.

[rootandbranch]

Do what...?

[he really doesn't know. this is new to him.

Vern can feel that longing, again. Geir wants to talk about these things, wants to be closer to him...]

[rootbound]

[that's frightening.

Vern puts his arms around the ridge in front of him, and holds on.]

Try and enforce people playing fair, somehow. Call out people when they don't. Be willing to confront them on it...

[rootandbranch]

[pragmatically]

You didn't really have the strength to do it before, did you? So of course you didn't. I guess you could decide whether you wanted to or not now. You have me.

[oh.]

[rootbound]

[PUTS HIS FACE DOWN AND DOESN'T ANSWER]

[rootandbranch]

[it's quiet for a while.]

Vern...?

[rootbound]

. . . I don't know how to do it . . .

[rootandbranch]

Do what?

[they've reached the edge of the island again; catches a thermal higher into the sky, now that there's breezes rising off the sea.]

[rootbound]

[sucks in a breath as Geir rising leaves his stomach behind for a second]

Change things so I'm doing that instead...? Even if I have the strength, I don't know how.

[rootandbranch]

But you want to?

[this is the important point, for Geir. everything in his life is either "I don't really know how to do this but I know I want it" or "I don't know how to do this and I don't know if I want to" right now. distinguishing between those two categories is all he has. at least a goal is a goal.]

[rootbound]

Probably? I don't know? I need time to figure out how...

[THIS IS A LOT OF PRESSURE]

[rootandbranch]

...if you don't know, you can decide later...

[THAT'S THE SECOND CATEGORY!!!!]

[rootbound]

Okay.

I feel like I should be jumping at the chance to change it, though...it's weird.

[how do you...even be a good people]

[rootandbranch]

...that's so strange...

As far as I know, Dad's never even thought about something like that. So you thinking about it is still different than I'm used to. I'm going to notice.

[you still get "thought vaguely about being a good person" credit]

[rootbound]

[your bar is so low and that makes me so sad for some reason, snek]

. . . maybe it's different when you're more powerful and you think you know what you're doing, too? You can reach out and get what you want and you have a good reason for yourself for doing that, so why change that, why feel bad about it . . .

[rootandbranch]

Yeah, why?

[I MEAN... THAT'S SOUND LOGIC.]

[rootbound]

I don't know, because you're usually still hurting other people to get what you want? Maybe that's worth thinking about? How would you like it if it were the other way around?

[upset]

[rootandbranch]

I thought you hated other people, though.

[the examples and what exactly they're talking about are starting to get a little mixed up, for Geir.]

[rootbound]

Yeah, I knowwwwwww...

[thunks his head down again. It's Too Much]

[rootandbranch]

[he's not empathetic, even for someone without a literal touch empathy skill, but he can hear the distress in Vern's voice.]

Are you okay. . .?

[rootbound]

[deep sigh]

I'm okay. It's just hard to sort it out.

[rootandbranch]

[Geir is quiet for a while, flying his slow loop around the island, until, abruptly:]

Am I asking you too much?

[rootbound]

What?

[blank; it just does not process for a moment that Geir would consider this, and it catches him off-guard...]