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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?

Comments

[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

[a_cute_batata]

I'm sure things'll be better next time you guys meet! It's just kinda hectic now!

You'd think that, right? But portal materials might be expensive too.

[laminae]

hectic is putting it lightly

expensive? you mean we gotta pay for that junk?

[a_cute_batata]

Good point. Honestly, it's a lot of things.

Well sure. Don't you have to do that back where you're from?

[laminae]

uh sometimes
most of the stuff i owned was scavenged or looted though

[a_cute_batata]

Oh. Well, you can't really do that here. This is a pretty populated city.

We might be able to find stuff in that spirit realm though.

[laminae]

ugh that's lame

at least we got that
i can start looking whenever
i'm pretty good at scavenging

[a_cute_batata]

Yeah, I know. Living in a reality where you have to pay for everything is the worst!

Right, but. Maybe take one or two people with you. It is called the SPIRIT WORLD, so probably anything can happen.

[laminae]

it totes is

man i'm also good with a sword
i'll be ok

[a_cute_batata]

Uh. Right, but this is the spirit world. What if you're dealing with stuff that will make your sword useless? I'm just saying, it might be good to have a buddy good with those kinds of situations.

[laminae]

geez you're being real responsible about this huh?
ok ok i'll do the buddy system
i guess adventuring is more friend with a bud anyways, too

[imaglyphwitch]

More like I've been real reckless in the past and it blew up in my face!

It is! Especially if the buddy has a skill and you don't! That way you can help each other out.

[laminae]

yeesh i know what that's like

you got a point there

[a_cute_batata]

The less we have that happen here, the better!

I've had some pretty crazy adventures myself! Come pretty close to death too.

Let's try to not die here!