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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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[laminae]

[Well, that might mean she won't be too weirded out by him. That's a good thing?]

huh you're not from Ooo are you

is there any junk around here i can break?
or evil monsters i can fight that'd be even better

[a_cute_batata]

[Let's go with it being a good thing]!

Nope! Never heard of it!

Well, I'm not sure there are things you could break that wouldn't have people yelling at you, and as for monsters? Words seems to be you might find them in that spirit world place?

[For right now, Luz was not going to try and mess with that, not until she has some more information].

[laminae]

dang
i guess that's for the better

[If anyone from Ooo was here, then they'd undoubtedly know his role in the Candy war and oh boy, getting labeled as a village and imprisoned or something would suck.]

spirit world place?
what's that?

[a_cute_batata]

Should think so!

[She didn't know this plant kid's whole deal, but it sounded complicated, and likely he still had some soul searching to do].

Supposedly where THIS place gets some of their spiritual energy from. Where I came from, it's the power of a dead carcass that gave it up to the world long ago, but here it sounds like it comes from ley lines.

[Luz at least knew that much about magic, having picked up a thing or two from folklore].

[laminae]

spiritual energy huh
and a dead corpse
hmmm

[He isn't sure what ley lines, but magic in general is something he's comfortable with, so he can roll with all of this.]

ok that sounds like a good place to start
thanks dude

[a_cute_batata]

Yep! It sounds kinda strange, but that's how it is!

[It sounded strange to people not used to strangeness, anyway. It seemed like this guy totally was used to things having their own sort of crazy logic to it].

Sure, no prob. Oh, and the name's Luz!

[laminae]

oh yeah
i'm fern
which was prob obvious since it's my username
nice to meet you

[a_cute_batata]

It was, but I didn't wanna jump to conclusions.

Oh, my username is Spanish for "cute witch" by the way. You can probably guess why.

[laminae]

right cause you're a witch
don't worry i'm not gonna forget that
i've been on the bad side of enough witches to know not to mess with you guys

[Or at least, to try.]

Lookit this little creampuff, can you imagine her handing out curses

[a_cute_batata]

Hmm?

Heh, don't worry, I'm not THAT kind of witch! I'm not going around handing out curses or anything!

her curses would be more like pranks

[laminae]

yeah? all the witches i've run into before were pretty curse happy
uh sometimes my bro and i totally deserved it though

Re: her curses would be more like pranks

[a_cute_batata]

I mean, I might say some not-so-nice things in Spanish when I stub my toe, but otherwise you have nothing to worry about!

Really? What sorta stuff did you guys get up to?

[laminae]

i think not-nice things after stubbing a toe is legit
oh uh just
adventuring
hero stuff

[That he doesn't do anymore because his brother hates him and he hitched his wagon to a tyrannical dictator.]

other stuff

[a_cute_batata]

It's kinda automatic once it happens.

[Luz wasn't foul mouthed obviously, but she could say some pretty dark things when she was in pain].

Hero stuff? I thought you said you were fighting the hero though?

[Conflicting interests]?

[laminae]

i was
kind of
look
it's really complicated ok??

[a_cute_batata]

It sounds like it is.

I'm just trying to understand it. Worlds and circumstances ae pretty crazy depending on what goes down. You don't sound evil though, if that means anything.

[laminae]

honestly dude
i don't know if you can't understand it
i don't really understand it

um
thanks
not sure how true that is

[a_cute_batata]

Ah.

Maybe in time? There's still a lot I don't understand.

Well.

If you don't think that, what DO you think about yourself?

[laminae]

maybe
'course there's some junk people never understand since it will never ever make any sense

oh geez don't ask me that
i
i don't know

[a_cute_batata]

Right, and that's my problem. I need to understand what's going on in this place, because I really need to make it back to the Isles!

Oh. I think I get what you're saying. You're probably still figuring that out.

[Luz understood that, all right. Even she wouldn't say that she knew exactly what she'd be able to do with any given situation].

[laminae]

there's no portal to get home?

yeah
yeah still figuring a lot out right now

[a_cute_batata]

For now, it seems. But some guy named Varian is apparently able to make them, and since I made one once before, I can probably help!

Actually, now that I think about it, Hunter should also be able to help with the portal too, since I KNOW he's helped to build one.

[laminae]

oh yeah him
that's cool, i got some experience with them too

[Not that he wants to go home, but if he can help other people, maybe that would be okay?]

so we got a whole team
it shouldn't be hard to do

[a_cute_batata]

Oh cool, you already met!

[Word must travel pretty quickly around here, so that was good].

Hopefully. The main issue will be making sure we have all the material that we need.

[laminae]

yup
kind of not a great first meeting but he seems ok

dog we're in a big city there's gotta be everything we need here