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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] parodeity 2018-02-25 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, I don't have enough Japan geography remembered to know where that is. I'm from, uh, Houston? Born and raised - well, raised at least.
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[personal profile] inheritance 2018-02-26 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
That's okay. It'd be hard to remember everything, even for someone who's lived in Japan their whole lives.

Besides, the one big thing Musutafu's really known for is U.A. high school.
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-26 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Is it for really good grades kids or somethin'?

[ he's clearly never heard of it. ]
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[personal profile] inheritance 2018-02-26 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[It's just a reminder of how far he is from home. He rubs at his neck, smiling slightly.]

Not...exactly. It has the best hero course in Japan. That's what it's known for.
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-26 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Like...tights and a cape?

[ dave is literally wearing a cape right now ]
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[personal profile] inheritance 2018-02-27 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Izuku grins.] Yeah, exactly like that.

I guess it's sort of hard to explain, now that I know this isn't the same in other worlds, but... how much do you know about heroes?
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-28 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ HE HATES THEM, BECAUSE BRO WAS A HERO, AND BRO WAS FUCKED UP,,,

however: ]


I'm assumin' from the way you say that you mean something specific. I know what the concept of a hero is? Like, linguistically.
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[personal profile] inheritance 2018-02-28 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Um, I guess the easiest way to explain it would be... heroes like in the old comic books?

...if you have those. [He laughs a little sheepishly.] I can't keep assuming that all the other worlds are used to the same things that are common in mine.
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-28 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
Shit yeah we have comic books. I have a webcomic, which is admittedly different, but like. I've read comics. So...you got a superpower, then?
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[personal profile] inheritance 2018-03-01 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. Except where I'm from, we call them quirks.

Anyway, schools like U.A. are where we go to learn how to be proper heroes and how to control our quirks.
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-03-02 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
So what's your quirk? [ he actually seems curious now... ]
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[personal profile] inheritance 2018-03-02 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, it's strength augmentation.

[It's usually easiest to explain it that way...]