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awash mods ([personal profile] awashmods) wrote in [community profile] awoosh2018-02-24 02:33 pm
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test drive meme 1.





Her Pa committed suicide
By biting off his head.
Her mother saw her uncle's ghost
And died of fright, she said.
So her unpleasant habits
Seem most curious to me,
Because she seems to come from such
A happy family.




Prompt 1:

he forest looms as ever, colorless but not at all dead. The leaves are full, fluttering in the silence, but there's no scent to them, no color. The effect is eerily hard to navigate, almost like an optical illusion, leaves, branches and trunk blending together with the small path -- which already disappears and reappears at a whim.

But even so...

If you brave the path, it seems as though there is something leading you onwards. A trail of... something, crumbs, maybe, the same shade of colorless as everything else, almost impossible to see. Following those might be a bad idea -- your chances of getting lost, tangled in random underbrush, or wandering aimlessly for hours are pretty high... to say nothing of what you might encounter if you stray too far (hint: even the small, fuzzy things have nasty bites).

Still, it's there, and if you follow them... eventually you will come to a small house. It's decrepit, falling apart and in shambles... do you really want to go inside? Perhaps armed with one of the many convenient tree branches that have probably smacked you thus far?


Prompt 2:

hould you enter the house, you'll be greeted with a creepy, creepy doorman. Aw, how cute! And in that doll's hand, there's...a message.

On a slip of paper, it reads, simply and plainly:

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Curious! (And yeah, you can destroy the doll. It's just a normal doll. You may even come across said doll already crushed by an intrepid explorer.)

Of course, it's a riddle, and the answer's a warning -- the longer you walk around and about the house, the less you'll remember about yourself, until you forget why you were there and why you should leave, and who you are at all, doomed to wander forever.

Or someone saves you, that's fine too.


Prompt 3:

roblem: There are no fresh eggs in the Town.

Solution: Catch a feral chicken, and keep it for eggs. That seems simple enough, right? You're totally up for the task... right?

But why do all of the animals look so strange in the forest? Mutated, with teeth, or wings that don't belong, or claws. That's... a chicken, right?

Catching it will allow you to get some eggs, but that beak looks pretty nasty -- it might be harder than it looks. But you're intrepid and clever, right? Why not demonstrate your Chicken Wrangling Skills that won you the championship so many years ago? Or try to serenade the savage beast? Or wuss out and form a coalition with which you draw lots to see who has to do battle with the chicken? There's safety in numbers! But the prize will surely be worth a bit of blood loss and fowl-related trauma.

Do it for the eggs.


Prompt 4:

here's a new quest on the forum today, and it looks awfully easy! It's listed simply as:

Quest XXII.
Talk to someone you've never met about their childhood.
Quest will be completed when you have reached an acceptable level of knowledge.


On the other hand, that's a little vague, isn't it... ? How will you even know when you've completed a quest like that?

Still, it looks easy! Maybe go give it a try. You could respond to the forum post to try to find people, or just go on outside, go harass someone about their past. If you're lucky, you'll drag it out of them with very little hassle and it won't take you a good chunk of the day. If you're unlucky, that's what highly persistent stalking is for! But don't forget, you'll likely have to return the favor.

And your new friend might not be the only one listening.


Extra:

Got something in mind? Want to play with the setting more? The sky's the limit, so feel free and make up your own prompts to play with!



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[personal profile] nascere 2018-02-25 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Good plan. You take one side, I'll take the other?

[ Noctis pauses, contemplating the chicken. His current companion is broad-shouldered and strong, built pretty sturdy and all that and evidently more than capable of killing the chicken. Honestly, killing the chicken is easy, but that means no eggs, and he's not entirely clear that this demonic-looking thing won't poison them. Capturing the bird instead of killing it is definitely a much more complicated enterprise. ]

You uh -- got a sack? Or anything like that?
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[personal profile] holloweyed 2018-02-25 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't laugh at him!! He kicks his legs even more because Okuyasu's laughing, and also because he really can't find his footing in this tree. He'll try once... twice... Okay, he's just going to keep looking like those hang in there motivational posters.]

No, you idiot, you have a Chain! [He waves his cane towards the Hand.] Instead of standing there laughing, why don't you tell me how you aren't Illegal so I don't have to come down there.

[not that he... SHOULD... use his power...]
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[personal profile] pursestrings 2018-02-25 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Stop kicking!! Thankfully all Okuyasu has to do to avoid his kicks is slide out of the way and laugh at him from further away. Loser.

That said: uhhh, what? This old man...]


What, The Hand? My Stand? Stands can't be illegal—that's impossible. Man, how do you guys keep seeing 'em if you don't know what they are? This is too much for me...

[he should just leave Break here]
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[personal profile] warfares 2018-02-25 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, [ it's said in such a mild, inflectionless tone that you'd think he'd missed Kyle's sarcasm entirely.

Slowly, his fingers close over the pebble, ]
There are more of them over there, leading toward the forest.
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[personal profile] dreidels 2018-02-25 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks toward wherever over there is, but that's not enough. He walks a little closer, crouching down to look at another. This time, he pokes at it with his fingertips.]

So it's a trail. Someone probably wanted to be able to find their way back out.
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[personal profile] underlined 2018-02-25 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Keisuke had just sort of... wandered into the woods. At first he had been following a path, finding it the easiest point of entry, but after that point he'd lost all bearings relatively quickly and just resorted to going wherever his gut told him might lead to something, anything at all. Truth be told, he's a little mesmerized. He's never seen this many trees (so many healthy ones, anyway), and while some might find them dull and drab like the town they'd all passed through, they're vibrant in his eyes. There were only a few carefully-tended areas of foliage in the CFC, but for the most part the Third Division had drained all the life out of the world. The path to Toshima had been little more than rubble and debris, irrevocably scarred by war.

Which is why the quaintness of the town and the peace of the forest are strange to him, though not in a particularly bad way. As usual, Keisuke is nervous, because that's just his default state, but the paranoia isn't nearly as bad as it was back in Toshima, where Igura's rules painted a mortal target on his back at all times.

It's actually dumb luck that he finds the abandoned house. Perhaps he had stumbled across the breadcrumb trail and instinct had led from there, but he ends up walking up to the place completely oblivious of it. He had entered the clearing from a different part of the forest, so at first he is ignorant as well of Lupin's presence. That is, until he starts following the walls of the house, turning a corner and nearly stumbling across the man sitting against the wall.]


Aah!!

[Is this how he's going to meet everyone in this place...

He takes a step and a half back, hands ineffectually raised, but the man remains seated, greeting him cordially. Keisuke looks mistrustful for a moment before relaxing his posture, right hand moving to rub nervously across his left arm.]


Y - Yeah... guess so.

[He looks to the very brightly-garbed stranger with a look of bald-faced suspicion.] Were you... waiting for someone?
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ii - b!

[personal profile] passio 2018-02-25 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ dextera allows his hand to be taken, but when she starts to move, he pulls back. there's not much force behind it, and yet, enough to say firmly that he doesn't want to go wherever she's taking him.

he may not remember how or why he came upon this house, but something in his chest tells him that there's a reason to keep wandering. ]


Wait—

[ a very quiet voice, more sad than insistent. ]
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[personal profile] nascere 2018-02-25 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
yeah seems that way
got into an accident when i was a kid
was sick for awhile
mom died when i was really little and dad had to work all the time
u?
underlined: (;everything i love is on the table)

ii-b, bless u liz

[personal profile] underlined 2018-02-25 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
[The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Keisuke has been in this house for quite a while. An hour or two? He isn't sure anymore, but then again, there are many and more things he finds he's unsure of. Where this place was, what this place was, what his purpose had been. It was the experience of walking into a room only to forget why you had gone there at all, though stretched and distorted across an entire experience. He had started to cyclically wander through rooms, attention span growing short and memories growing less and less likely to stick from one room to the next.

Until she appears out of nowhere.

Keisuke blinks slowly, owlishly, a bit of alarm slowly setting across his expression. He takes a half-step back but she takes his hand, causing him to leap a little bit in his skin.

He doesn't, however, resist when she starts pulling him along.]


I shouldn't...? [The tone of voice is a bit distant, a bit dazed.]

Why? I was - I was going to... in the next room, I have to...

[His voice drifts off. What about the next room? There's only a hazy blank.]
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[personal profile] explosivo 2018-02-25 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... hello, from the person who kind of made your childhood slightly hell. ]

Fuck, you're overthinking this shit.

That quest sounds like a waste of time. You gonna try to go for it or what?
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-02-25 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
Unbelievably. [ drawls, a bit. ] This is downright normal compared to some of the shit I've seen.

[ with a gesture she'll just. lead the way. by floating. floating the way. ]
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[personal profile] warfares 2018-02-25 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
There are more effective ways to mark a trail, [ he says, patient. ] Ways less likely to end in the markers being taken.

[ As to why someone would want to collect these strange, not-really-pebbles, he could only guess. ] I wonder how long they've been out here.



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iv! silence is golden!!!

[personal profile] passio 2018-02-25 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ dextera jolts slightly, skittish, when he's approached.

...interesting? maybe for him!

dextera is well-versed in how much losing one's voice sucks, though it's not the fault of this world. rather, even on a good day, he can't always muster up the Mental Stability to produce a sound. feeling almost apologetic—certainly not angry—for not being able to answer properly, he taps his throat, winces meaningfully, and shrugs. ]
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[personal profile] dreidels 2018-02-25 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Hansel and Gretel, dude.

[Which isn't the best example. Don't they get eaten or something? He supposes it doesn't matter, ultimately. That's just some kids' story.]

I'd say a while, if these things aren't supposed to be so squishy.
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-02-25 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

[ irritably. talk about petty.

she'll stop pawing at her hair to glance up at him, and just kinda -- pause for a sec. ]


I'm just peachy.

[ ... ]

What's with your face?

[ vriska don't just ask people what's up with their faces ]
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bakugou katsuki / mha

[personal profile] explosivo 2018-02-25 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
3.

[ these resident chickens look screwed up as hell.

but yeah, bakugou's not chicken when it comes to mutant chickens. unfairly enough, he actually barely has a problem catching one at all and easily does so, holding one out by the feet--its feathers are slightly scorched but it's still putting up a good fight, biting at his hands and fingers and doing its best to claw him up with its little t-rex hands. ]


This thing's a fighter...

Hell, forget eggs. I could roast this asshole for screwing with me. [ he lifts the creature up so he could fix it with a slightly bloodthirsty grin. ] What do you think, punk? You want to be dinner?

[ ... it bites at his nose. ]

Agh, fuck--!!


4.

[ on the forum-- ]

Anyone else think these quests are a pointless waste of time or just me
Is there even gonna be some prize or are people just gonna be spilling their life stories for shits and giggles


[ SOMEONE'S a skeptic. ]
hypertoxic: (ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴅᴏ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅs ⇒ [serious])

[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-02-25 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Vriska folds her arms across her chest, giving him a kind of uncertain frown. ]

Well, if we are actually going to get shit done, that's the right attitude to have.

[ a beat. she opens her mouth, thinks for a second, and then closes it, giving her head a small shake. ]

Well, let's keep going, then. We can shoot the shit along the way.

[ could it be clearer she doesn't actually know what to ask him. anyway hey let's keep walking wherever the hell we're going ]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-25 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ okay dave you can do this just don't say anything super awkward and this will be a perfectly normal outing walking with john's patron asshole, nothing to worry about, just pick a topic and go. there's plenty to talk about. probably. like...so much.

he kind of wants to ask about meenah, but even though he's curious he also knows he didn't really enjoy people bothering him about terezi post clown breakup.

so. she's spared that as he racks his brains. ]


So...what kind of music do you like?

[ god. small talk. kill him ]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-25 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
if the answer is true for me it still counts as true right
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[personal profile] windeity 2018-02-25 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Well.

He doesn't exactly have words for her and he's listening and yeah, okay, maybe there were better ways to word everything back then. He still feels back then it wasn't right to give the ring to Vriska but now with everything that's happened he has to wonder if the same thing is true. Looking at this Vriska now, he doesn't know what happened to her in her timeline to make her like this.

She's not exactly the Vriska he remembers with her appearance and her personality this way, but she's still Vriska Serket and part of him still, despite everything, has a vague sense of friendship toward her whether she wanted it or not. Even if she was crazy. And awful. And homicidal.

Right.

Still, he lets her continue to cry while he absorbs her words, a little shocked and a little guilty. Is he sticking around giving her false hope? Maybe. He doesn't know what will happen after this but it would be even worse to leave her here and anyway...when has Vriska ever asked for help?

So yeah. Incomprehensible or not, he crawls on his knees a little closer and slowly grabs her arm so he doesn't end up getting punched in the face, pulling a little to drag her closer for a hug. That's what you're supposed to do when someone's upset, right? Right.]
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-02-25 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ so like. this is the first person so far who hasn't been a completely useless asshole re: the chickens, so she's kind of just watching him fuck around with mild interest. she's probably sitting cross-legged on the ground nearby just watching all this happen.

but when the chicken bites him on the nose she just kinda

chokes and bursts out laughing, loudly. ]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-25 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ look he's just trying to scout. after about ten minutes off flying high above the treeline, he touches back down. ]

I do see some kinda village or something in that direction - but I might have to keep checking our bearing as we go. I bet this place is purposefully hard to navigate, just to be a bitch.
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[personal profile] warfares 2018-02-25 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ The reference goes completely over his head. Perhaps Chandrila had its own answer to the Grimm's brothers, but his father had never been much of a reader and his mother had always had greater concerns.

Regardless, ghost stories are just ghost stories, and while common sense would say that if someone was this interested in luring them into the woods they should probably avoid it, he's also seen all that the Town has to offer. ]


Then it's unlikely that whoever laid this trail will be making their way out of the forest.
Edited 2018-02-25 10:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] somelikeitcold 2018-02-25 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
My--?

[Unconsciously, a hand goes up to the burn scar around his eye. It's very old, she might notice, if she looks close.]

Sorry, but I can't answer that. It has to do with my past.

[Which we just established we weren't talking about, right.]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-25 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Do you eat chicken nuggets of chickens you knew???

[ why is he asking this ]