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[laminae]

WHO: Fern and open!
WHERE: Around the city, and the network.
WHEN: Early May.
WHAT: Fern's to Kaisou.
WARNINGS: Body horror because Fern is made of grass.

Around the city

[Going from the front lines of a large war to a literal nightmare to the interior of his mental vault has been bad times, enough so that when Fern finally exits his labyrinth he finds being upended in a world that looks distinctly un-post-apocalyptic is actually an improvement to his previous situation. There aren't any jerks who've stolen his identity, and there aren't any bigger jerks who pretended to be family but were only using him, so he's already in a much better place.

It can't last though, and he still has a lot of restless anger he needs to get out, somehow. He needs to start wrecking things, he still feels like complete garbage after all the problems he got yanked away from. But maybe he isn't the only one who showed up here? If that's the case, then all he needs to do is hunt the others down, then he can totally get the jump on Finn or whoever and beat the stuffing out of them until he feels better. Perfect plan!

So he wanders the city aimlessly, looking like a completely normal human boy with a bear hat to citizens who haven't been exposed to the paranormal, and to those who have, looking very much like some kind of horrifying pile of grass in the rough shape of a person. When he sees your character he doesn't hesitate in racing over to them, so good luck with that.]

Hey dude! You seen any giant cake robots around? Or Gumball Guardians?

[Asking about Finn will just send him into a self-loathing rage, and besides, the robots and guardians are a lot bigger and easier to spot.]

Network - text; un: fern

uh ok so i get this is some alternate universe biz
i've been through that before so it's whatevs, nothing new to me
but it's real donked
i've never seen so many humans just walking around like they didn't get totes extinct a thousand years ago or anything
not sure i'm ever gonna get used to this

wait unless this is just more nightmare?
is this some big shared nightmare trash? there's a lot less eyes if this is a nightmare
Globbit this sucks
anyone heard of Gumbaldia? the Candy Kingdom? am i on my own here?

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[madebyhumans]

[Fern, meet a big psychic cat. She looks down at him, tilting her head.]

Cake... robots? That is a thing in your world?

[laminae]

[Fern finds absolutely nothing wrong with a big cat talking to him, except for the psychic part. He immediately winces, grabbing his head. Oh no, nooo no no, he doesn't need another voice in his head.

Unless that's his own? But he wouldn't be asking himself that, right? He isn't totally sure, and he glares up at her.]

Dude, is that you?? Talk like a normal flippin' person!

[madebyhumans]

[Talk like a normal person?

How

does she do that.]

.... Mew.

[Sorry Fern. Psychic cat or not she's still a Pokemon that can only say her own name.]

[laminae]

[Fern opens his mouth, then closes. Okay, that seems like a problem.

Luckily, he has a solution.]

Dang, okay, hang on - [He pulls his grass backpack off, digging around in it before pulling out his phone. He'll open up the messenger app, since it has a keyboard, and holds it out for her.]

Can you type?

Around the city

[neverbreaks]

[ Luisa is starting to feel the now-familiar hunger, which is a bit frustrating. So far it’s only been a day, but if it follows the same pattern as last month, this week is not going to be fun.

She’s not making the same mistake this time, and is munching on a snack as she makes her way down the street, when she sees the…boy? Plant? Someone (something?) coming towards her, and her confusion only grows when he asks his questions. ]

Uh…I don’t…think so?

…What are Gumball Guardians?

[ And…cake robots? ]

[laminae]

[There's a blink, and Fern quickly realizes this lady reminds him of Susan. She's certainly got the same muscles for days, though she's lacking the cat hat, and he's pretty sure he's never seen her before so there isn't the whole... attacking her and being the worst friend ever... thing he needs to worry about.

Y - yay?]

Big gumball robots? Like... [He looks around, the points towards a nearby skyscraper.] That building kinda big.

[neverbreaks]

[ She follows his direction for a moment, before shaking her head and turning back to him. ] Sorry, I don't think I've seen anything like that before.

Are you...I mean, have you just arrived here in the city?

[ She doesn't entirely want to assume, and it's not like she knows everyone in the city. But a...green person kind of does stand out. ]

[laminae]

Seriously? Geez! [That's going to make things much, much harder in tracking Finn down, and in frustration the grass making up Fern's body rustles and twitches unnaturally.]

Guess I am. Last place I remember being was a big stupid nightmare, and before that a big stupid war.

[He kicks a random stone on the ground with a clawed foot.]

This sucks so much!

[neverbreaks]

[ Luisa can't help blinking a little as she watches him. He definitely seems to be made of plants. ]

Yeah, I'm sorry. It can be difficult getting dropped in here suddenly.

[ She hesitates a moment. ] Do you...need help finding someone? I can't guarantee that they're here, but...I can try to help you look, if you want?

[laminae]

[He really wants to start breaking things, honestly. Clenching his hands into fists, he sorely considers forming a sword and just starting to cut anything within the vicinity - the streetlights, a mailbox - up.

It'd be really easy to.]

You haven't seen a human guy who looks like me around, have you?

[neverbreaks]

[ She studies him for a moment, trying to imagine his appearance as a human to see if it jogs anything in her memories. ]

Mm...no, I don't think so. I'm sorry.

But that doesn't necessarily mean he isn't here. We can try looking around for him.

text UN: linda_bruja

[a_cute_batata]

You too? I've also world hopped!

But where I'm from, its nothing but humans. So, maybe less alarming for someone like me?

Wait, but if all the humans in your world are gone, what are you?

I don't think its a shared nightmares. You usually can't stay in those for too long, right? Not unless some really competent wizard can do it, and I don't think that's what's happening.

Nope. Just like I bet you never heard of the Boiling Isles.

[laminae]

i'm uh
grass
that's all

never heard of a competent wizard before but a dangerous one could pull it off

nope never heard of 'em
but i've never really been off Ooo
not to other islands at least
so there's probably a billion islands i've never heard of

you ever hear of a guy called Finn Mertens?

[a_cute_batata]

Just grass? Really?

Huh. That's pretty cool!

Me neither. I just know really good witches!

There ARE a lot worlds out there! I've never heard of Ooo either, or that Finn guy. Is he a friend of yours, or someone that owes you money, all mortal enemy type?

[laminae]

iiiit really isn't
it sucks

ok witches are better than wizards
wizards are just a bunch of dillweeds
a witch could've done this too maybe

oh yeah tons of worlds, tons of universes
it's a whole thing

no
i wanna kill him

[a_cute_batata]

Really? But that means it'd be hard for you to get hurt, right? Not impossible of course, but hard? Where I'm from, I can cast glyph magic, and one of the main ones are plant magic. There is a LOT you can do with that stuff!

My teacher Eda is inclined to agree, and so am I! The last "wizard" I met was a great big jerk!

Same here!

Oh. Uh. Really? Is he some kind of hardened criminal that's making things awful in Ooo?

[Luz could think of a person on the top of her list who really needed to be killed, though she wouldn't let herself think that way since that was very much the way THAT guy thought things should be settled].

[laminae]

it's not
it's not about rad punches
i wish it was but it's not
ugh it just sucks ok??

i hope you socked the guy

nah he's pretty much a huge hero back home
we were in the middle of a fight before i got stuck here
i need to finish it

[a_cute_batata]

Oh. Ok. I'll try not to think of it that way then. I just thought it sounded cool.

[Well something about that reaction made her think of Hunter. He must be going through some heavy business in that Ooo world too].

Actually, I kinda did! Granted, my teacher then shrunk him down and ate him, but I try not to think about that!

You want to...beat the hero?

So that makes you the villain then?

[Shouldn't he be all "muahaha" about it? Because he seemed more just frustrated about things].

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

[Oh hey it's the Not!Lorb guy again.]

As previously established, no, we're still not extinct. We were never extinct. We might be extinct in your timeline but right now? Not extinct.

The nightmare theory isn't a bad one, though. I've never experienced the things here for my brain to generate them so I guess the question is how are we contributing to one another's dreamscapes?

[laminae]

that's so weird dude
also who are you

i dunno how shared dreams work but they happened a lot back home
breaking stuff until you wake up is how i deal with them

[droptheious]

It's not weird, it's normal. And it's Varian, the guy you accosted in my nightmare labyrinth.

They did? Do you know how they managed it? Presumably, they had to do something to join their consciousness together, right? It couldn't just HAPPEN.

I'm not sure how well breaking stuff would help.

[laminae]

oh ok
sup man

nah i don't think there's some big special reason for it
it just happens

oh it won't
but it'll feel nice

[droptheious]

...Sup?

[He has no idea what that word means but without realising it, he;s using it...marginally properly.]

It can just happen...randomly?

Okay, I guess that's a good point. Maybe there's something around here where you can break stuff without making the people who live here angry? There's something called a junkyard I found, it's where people put their garbage.

[laminae]

[He's using it properly enough that Fern isn't thinking anything of it!]

yeah as far as i know

a junkyard??? humans got a whole junkyard???
dude that's perfect! where is it???

[droptheious]

[And this is how he will forever use it (correctly) without ever learning what it means.]

That's concerning.

And yeah! Do you want me to show you? I want to drop off there to check for some things anyway. Where do you want me to meet you?