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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] lonered 2018-02-26 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
The pony part sounds a little ridiculous.

[Keith informs him, but other than that, okay. But sure, it's strange, but he's seen stranger out in space.]

So you're an alien? Sort of?

[Small world, so is Keith. Halfway anyway.]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-26 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I...guess? I mean, the genetic slime I was made from was human. I think. Which technically came from the same genetic source - you know what, I actually don't even wanna talk about ectobiology, it's like the most bullshit science. Where were you born?
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[personal profile] lonered 2018-02-26 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds complicated.

[Like "class Keith would have skipped at the Garrison" complicated.]

Me? Uh... Earth. [He names only the planet with the tone of someone who is half used to people not even recognizing something that general. Most aliens he's met are barely aware of it, nevermind a country or a city. And most everyone he's met in forever has been an alien. Though he does pause, to qualify.] Probably Earth.
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-26 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Like, I guess "probably Earth" qualifies for me, too. [ and then he adds his own extra: ] I'm from Texas, actually.

[ he has the accent to prove it, too. SUPERB ]
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[personal profile] lonered 2018-02-26 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)

Wonder if it's the same Earth.

[Alternate realities are a weird thing where he's from so it's not that odd a question to ask in his mind. Though Keith isn't always great at reading the social temperature of a situation, so maybe it's weird to anyone who isn't him.]

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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-26 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Dunno. Did your Earth make it past 2009?
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[personal profile] lonered 2018-02-27 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Uh... yeah. Pretty far past.

[So hold, please.]

Your Earth was destroyed?

[And then because he can't not say things that come into his head.] Was it the Galra?
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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-28 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
No clue what a Galra is, assumin' from the question that it's some kinda invading alien rac, though. But nah, it was meteors.

[ and also sburb but whatever he's not explaining all of homestuck don't make him ever ]
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[personal profile] lonered 2018-02-28 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)

Yeah, that about sums it up. They're aliens.

[Mostly invading. With some notable exceptions. No need to mention his own heritage here.]

Meteors? So just like the dinosaurs?

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[personal profile] parodeity 2018-03-01 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Shit, yeah. I guess I have more in common with dinosaurs than I thought now? But anyway, my friends and I got out of it before we got hit also, so that worked out mostly.